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Presumably someone mortally wounded in a tournament could be shriven in the
usual way and so qualify for Christian burial ? Also a penitent (or
prudent!) participant in tournaments might subsequently confess, be absolved
and do penance also in the usual way.
BTW I was under the impression that it was MERCENARY SOLDIERS who were
excommunicate rather than / as well as ? / participants in tournaments.
In other words, the only fighting approved by the church was serious warfare
at the behest of ones liege-lord ? I also remember reading somewhere that
the Crusaders were allowed on the eve of battle (in the absence of a priest)
to confess their sins into the ears of their horses and that this qualified
them for absolution.
Brenda M.C.
> Jessalynn Bird writes:
>
> > from 1130 onwards, participants in tournaments were considered
> >excommunicated, >and those who died from wounds sustained from
> >participation in them were >theoretically to be denied Christian burial.
>
> I didn't know this.
> If one had participated in a tournament and survived, how would one return
> to the good graces of Mother Church?
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