Gallery

The audience watching a tournament , or the structure from which the audience watched a tourney. From the 12th to the 14th century, these were generally informal places such as a hillside or a pavilion where ladies, courtiers and heralds could watch the engagement, but during the 15th century as the splendor of the tournament created a more elaborate pageant, wooden structures similar to "box seats" were built and decorated with fabric. Such galleries are common in the illustrations of King René d’Anjou’s Livre de Tournoi from the middle 15th century. See Chronique: The Journal of Chivalry #10 .