What I learned today

The Second Lateran Council condemned the medieval sport of jousting:

We entirely forbid, moreover, those abominable jousts and tournaments in which knights come together by agreement and rashly engage in showing off their physical prowess and daring, and which often result in human deaths and danger to souls. If any of them dies on these occasions, although penance and viaticum are not to be denied him when he requests them, he is to be deprived of a church burial (canon 14).

I often said I would be much more interested in sports if fencing were more wide-spread and jousting made a return. I suppose now I'll have to correct my views.