Reed Games, a Moorish Pastime in the Court of the Austrians

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The game of reeds was a playful practice in Hispanic medieval society, and had different manifestations throughout the Middle and Modern Ages, from the presence of these games by way of dance performed by Muslims accompanying Corpus Christi, to the simulation of war action to the mode of tournament to which they attended the Moorish kings and aristocrats in the middle of the 15th century. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the war games …