In the days before liability became a watchword...

Yeah, he seriously knocked the other guy into the water with a quarterstaff.

There's an archive of LIFE magazine photos on Google, and if you search them for "King Arthur," you get some interesting results. Who are these pre-Berkeley SCAdian sorts?

Got Medieval located the images and one of its readers solved the mystery: Bethany College of West Virginia had a College Joust, back in the 1950s.

Word of the Day

"Psychoceramics"

Use: "The original title used the vulgar word for 'psychoceramics' for the Arthuriana I mean -- things like Holy Blood, Holy Grail, and the Alano-Sarmatian hypothesis"

Source: Got Medieval

("Got Medieval" is turning out to be a seriously amusing blog, for the weekly marginalia if nothing else.)