Fourth and the final point is how women were treated and expected of in these events. Crouch states, “Women on the day of the tournament were expected to be quite as vocal an audience as in any modern sporting event. They would sit for hours on their sheltered seats...they would comment loudly and sometimes sarcastically... they would shriek when a knight went down... and they would offer prizes.” (Crouch 157). This shows that women had some similarities and differences to women of today, similar in how they would cheer and different in how they were treated. The fact that there were similarities to today was shocking to me. I thought because it was the dark ages and because women in that age had it worse to when their grandmother was in their …show more content…
I think this book was well organized in its chapter and sub chapters. For a guy who despises reading, this book was not that tough as read as I expected especially for it being about history and non-fiction. There was nothing for me to be excited about going in, but I got through it without much struggle. The book had some weird names, some Latin words, and some unusual vocabulary. Other than a couple of words, this book was an easy to understand, thus making it an easy read. I read some reviews on the book before I chose this book and I remember it being around 4 to 5 stars. Now there aren’t any new reviews, but my perspective has changed a bit. I do know what the true meaning of a knight and how their lives were on the line constantly. Personally, I would recommend this book to those who do not really know about the medieval ages, those who want to learn some history about sport, those who are interested of the history of knights, and those who are interested in French and British history. This book has taught something about the dark ages and how they entertained each other in an age were human progression was in a huge stand still. Now that I know how these tournaments worked, I can see how modern sporting events root from the