What if Richard the Lionheart popularizes Bullfights in England, since Richard the Lionheart is from the Bullfighting country could he had popularized Bullfighting in England?
ahem, bullfighting WAS popular in England but done with dogs-bullbaiting- hence the bulldog....far far more violent and bloody. There's also several places with old names alluding to it.
I want both type 2 and 3 popular in england in the present.What type of bullfighting are you asking about?
1) Baiting - dogs vs bulls
2) Running - men compete on foot, running between the bulls using them as obstacles, often involving taking rosettes or coiled ropes
3) Horse - a man or team, all on horseback, fight the bull
4) Foot - a man or team, all on foor, fight the bull
5) Mixed
I've put these in rough order of ancient-modern.
Mediaeval England practised Type 1 (as already mentioned), Roman Hispania Types 2 & 3, Modern Spain Types 3,4, & 5.
The little I can find suggests that Type 3 was popular in West Occitania but Type 2 in East (ie Provence etc).
I want both type 2 and 3 popular in england in the present.
That's a tall order in England since we lacked the arenas - all our Roman ampitheatres had been pretty much destroyed.
You basically need Richard enjoying the sport enough to set aside the money to build bullfighting arenas AND get BOTH nobles and peasants willing to take part.
Bullfighting as we know it today is a modern phenomenon. As late as the seventeenth century, Spanish bullfights were more like a ritzy version of the Pamplona running than like a modern corrida. So Richard, assuming he had wanted to, could at best have popularised the idea of 'Let's Do Crazy Shit That Could Kill Us'.
I think the English did enough of that already.
kasumigenx said:Bullfighting is from Occitans and Basques that became a symbol of Spain