Are the medieval jousts or tournaments that take place in much of Sicily, as well as in other regions of Italy, a symptom of a hidden nostalgia for certain medieval customs? Certainly not. To recall and reintroduce, in modernized forms, the jousts organized by knights and nobles of the Middle Ages and later, does not imply nostalgia for them.

These events are now part of a completely different experience, to customs entirely unrelated to the principles that accompanied those distant times. Today, they have become events of entertainment and commemoration because they are enjoyable and because we are more connected to our past than one might believe in an era where it might seem that some values have been lost.