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Everyone at a fair is a noble, or merchant. Very had very different rights, and a much better lifestyle (realistically common merchants were probably worse off

Everyone at a fair is a noble, or merchant. Very had very different rights, and a much better lifestyle (realistically common merchants were probably worse off, but we pretend they were better). The peasants were not invited to see a joust - some did see it, but only because they were servants who's job happen to put them in the right spot.

IAmBroom 1y ago
"Invited to see" is not "allowed to see". I suspect tournaments were heavily attended by any peasants who could get there. Their money, however hard-scramble, was just as useful to merchants selling meat pies, fried sweetened breads, and beer/wine.