Minstrels And Minstrelsy In Late Medieval England
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Minstrels and Minstrelsy in Late Medieval England
Author | : Richard Rastall |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 477 |
Release | : 2023-04-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781837650392 |
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A major new study piecing together the intriguing but fragmentary evidence surrounding the lives of minstrels to highlight how these seemingly peripheral figures were keenly involved with all aspects of late medieval communities. Minstrels were a common sight and sound in the late Middle Ages. Aristocrats, knights and ladies heard them on great occasions (such as Edward I's wedding feast for his daughter Elizabeth in 1296) and in quieter moments in their chambers; town-dwellers heard and saw them in civic processions (when their sound drew attention to the spectacle); and even in the countryside people heard them at weddings, church-ales and other parish celebrations. But who were the minstrels, and what did they do? How did they live, and how easily did they make a living? How did they perform, and in what conditions? The evidence is intriguing but fragmentary, including literary and iconographic sources and, most importantly, the financial records of royal and aristocratic households and of towns. These offer many insights, although they are often hard to fit into any coherent picture of the minstrels' lives and their place in society. It is easy to see the minstrels as peripheral figures, entertainers who had no central place in the medieval world. Yet they were full members of it, interacting with the ordinary people around them, as well as with the ruling classes: carrying letters and important verbal messages, some lending huge sums of money to the king (to finance Henry V's Agincourt campaign in 1415, for instance), some regular and necessary civic servants, some committing crimes or suffering the crimes of others. In this book Rastall and Taylor bring to bear the available evidence to enlarge and enrich our view of the minstrel in late medieval society.
Narrative Minstrelsy in Late Medieval England
Author | : Andrew Taylor |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 754 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:977000851 |
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Music in North east England 1500 1800
Author | : Stephanie Carter,Stephanie Louise Carter,Kirsten Gibson,Roz Southey |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781783275410 |
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This collection situates the North-East within a developing nationwide account of British musical culture.
Music in Early English Religious Drama Minstrels playing
Author | : Richard Rastall |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0859915859 |
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MEDIUM AEVUM says of Heaven Singing, the general discussion of the subject from which the present volume follows on with examination of the individual plays: 'A formidable achievement, indispensable for any serious and comprehensive study of early English drama.'
Routledge Revivals Medieval England 1998
Author | : Paul E. Szarmach,M. Teresa Tavormina,Joel T. Rosenthal |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 949 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781351666374 |
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First published in 1998, this valuable reference work offers concise, expert answers to questions on all aspects of life and culture in Medieval England, including art, architecture, law, literature, kings, women, music, commerce, technology, warfare and religion. This wide-ranging text encompasses English social, cultural, and political life from the Anglo-Saxon invasions in the fifth century to the turn of the sixteenth century, as well as its ties to the Celtic world of Wales, Scotland and Ireland, the French and Anglo-Norman world of the Continent and the Viking and Scandinavian world of the North Sea. A range of topics are discussed from Sedulius to Skelton, from Wulfstan of York to Reginald Pecock, from Pictish art to Gothic sculpture and from the Vikings to the Black Death. A subject and name index makes it easy to locate information and bibliographies direct users to essential primary and secondary sources as well as key scholarship. With more than 700 entries by over 300 international scholars, this work provides a detailed portrait of the English Middle Ages and will be of great value to students and scholars studying Medieval history in England and Europe, as well as non-specialist readers.
The Songs and Travels of a Tudor Minstrel
Author | : Andrew Taylor |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781903153390 |
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A reconstruction of the life and works of a sixteenth-century minstrel, showing the tradition to be flourishing well into the Tudor period. Richard Sheale, a harper and balladeer from Tamworth, is virtually the only English minstrel whose life story is known to us in any detail. It had been thought that by the sixteenth century minstrels had generally been downgradedto the role of mere jesters. However, through a careful examination of the manuscript which Sheale almost certainly "wrote" (Bodleian Ashmole 48) and other records, the author argues that the oral tradition remained vibrant at this period, contrary to the common idea that print had by this stage destroyed traditional minstrelsy. The author shows that under the patronage of Edward Stanley, earl of Derby, and his son, from one of the most important aristocratic families in England, Sheale recited and collected ballads and travelled to and from London to market them. Amongst his repertoire was the famous Chevy Chase, which Sir Philip Sidney said moved his heart "more than witha trumpet". Sheale also composed his own verse, including a lament on being robbed of 60 on his way to London; the poem is reproduced in this volume. ANDREW TAYLOR lectures in the Department of English, University of Ottawa.
Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England and France
Author | : Joyce Coleman |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2005-06-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521673518 |
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This book demonstrates that received views on orality and literacy underestimate the importance of public reading in the late Middle Ages.
Medieval English Theatre 44
Author | : Meg Twycross,Sarah Carpenter,Elisabeth Dutton,Gordon Kipling |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2023-06-13 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781843846499 |
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Newest research into drama and performance of the Middle Ages and Tudor period. Medieval English Theatre is the premier journal in early theatre studies. Its name belies its wide range of interest: it publishes articles on theatre and pageantry from across the British Isles up to the opening of the London playhouses and the suppression of the civic religious plays , and also includes contributions on European and Latin drama, together with analyses of modern survivals or equivalents, and of research productions of medieval plays. The papers in this volume explore richly interlocking topics. Themes of royalty and play continue from Volume 43. We have the first in-depth examination of the employment of the now-famous Black Tudor trumpeter, John Blanke, at the royal courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII. An entertaining survey of the popular European game of blanket-tossing accompanies the translation of a raucous, sophisticated, but surprisingly humane Dutch rederijkers farce. The Towneley plays remain fertile ground for further research, and this blanket-tossing farce illuminates a key scene of the well-known Second Shepherd's Play. New exploration of a colloquial reference to 'Stafford Blue' in another Towneley pageant, Noah, not only enlivens the play's social context but contributes to important current re-thinking of the manuscript's date. Two papers bring home the theatrical potential of food and eating. We learn how the Tudor interlude Jacob and Esau dramatises the preparation and provision of food from the Genesis story. Serving and eating meals becomes a means of social, theological, and theatrical manipulation. Contrastingly, in the N. Town Last Supper play and a French convent drama, we see how the bread of Passover, the Last Supper, and the Mass could be evoked, layered and shared in performance. In both these plays the audiences' experiences of theatre and of communion overlap and inform each other.