The Retrospective Nostalgia of the Middle Ages

There's a phrase in James Joyce, past times, meaning games. All human games take the form of doing something in an art situation which had formally been done in a realistic way. Is this what you mean when you say the middle ages as the late show of the Renaissance? No. The game chess you see was used to be called La Chas Royale and was an attempt to carry out in a game pattern the hunt. Fox hunting was the real thing, was the way man gained his livelihood a few years earlier. I think this applies to baseball and most of the games we know. Games past times are past times.