Behourd, quintain, mle, and hastilude are terms relating to what?
Hastilude about the nature of the "tupinaire". It is clearly a hastilude, or wargame, of some kind, and distinct from the other types, but there seems to be no clear description of its rules. Hastilude Hastilude is a generic term used in the Middle Ages to refer to many kinds of martial games. The word comes from the Latin "hastiludium", literally "lance game"'. By the 14th century, the term usually excluded tournaments and was used to describe the other games collectively; this seems to have coincided with the increasing preference for ritualistic and individualistic games over the traditional mêlée style. Today,
Hastilude of humiliation. If a lady passed unescorted, she would leave behind a glove or scarf, to be rescued and returned to her by a future knight who passed that way. "Behourd", "buhurt" and "mêlée" (the latter term being modern) refer to a class of hastiludes that involve groups of fighters simulating cavalry combat. This type of game formed the core of the tournament during the high medieval period. The "quintain" (from Latin "quintana", a street between the fifth and sixth maniples of a camp, where warlike exercises took place), also known as "pavo" (or peacock), may have included a number