6. Charny asks: Knights and squires joust in an emprise, with the announced rules as above. One knight knocks a squire out of the saddle, or a squire does the same to a knight. Will he win the horse? What do you say?
My translation of Charny's Questions are posted here so that other scholars can comment. I am particularly interested in references to other discussions of the legal problems raised by Charny. In other words, if someone in the Late Middle Ages provided an answer to a question similar to one of Charny's, I would be very glad to hear about it. The translation is (c) Steven Muhlberger 2011. I reserve the right to use any material posted on this site.
Saturday, May 28, 2011
J 7
7. Charny asks: An emprise is arranged for jousting by either knights or squires, with the announced rules as above. So it happens that one of the home team jousts in this way with one of the visitors, and because he was running out of bounds, the visitor throws his lance and the thrown lance strikes its butt end on the ground. And before the front end falls down it pierces the other's horse and kills it. Does the visitor give recompense for the horse? What do you say?
J 8
8. Charny asks: A banneret sends out from his entourage some knights to go out with him in the fields to joust with those who have set the emprise; those knights agree with him and sally forth on their own horses which are with them. If there are two or three of them whose horses are dead and injured in the joust from blows or falls, will the banneret be obliged to compensate them? What do you say?
J 9
9. Charny asks: There is an emprise as above. It happens that one of the visitors jousts with one of the home team; and the home jouster strikes the visitor's horse on the head or some other part, and it was the visitor's first course. So he does not wish at all to get down before he has run the two lances which he has yet to run; and when he has run them he sends the horse to the defender, and demands that he compensate him. Will he compensate him? What do you say?
J 10
10. Charny asks: There is an emprise as above. A horse is struck by a lance and the one who is riding it dismounts right away and sends it to his inn. The next day he sends it to the inn of the man who struck it. Will he pay him compensation? What do you say?
J 11
11. Charny asks: Two knights joust in the contest described above and at the striking of the lances both come out of the saddle. Will each take the horse of his companion, or each keep his own? What do you say?
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