In the Heege manuscript, an English tutor may have copied the text of a medieval minstrel’s repertoire book. National Library of Scotland If you’ve ever played the video game “Skyrim” or watched a ...

Most minstrels were not professionals, but most were likely semi-professional working a regular day job and performing at night. Textual evidence of medieval minstrels is scarce and no minstrel's ...

Medieval traveling minstrels often journeyed hundreds of miles by foot to conferences to learn new songs. Liza Malamut, artistic director of The Newberry Consort, has joined forces with Allison Monroe ...

James Wade is an associate professor of English at the University of Cambridge (University of Cambridge). (CN) — If you take Richard Heege at his word, then the reason so few minstrel tales survived ...

A new study by a Cambridge English professor explores comedic texts believed to have been written by an unknown medieval minstrel. When did Britain get its sense of humour? New evidence suggests that ...

These comedians had “the instinct to self-ironize, to use crude bodily humor, to use slapstick and situational comedy, and the willingness to make the audience the butt of the joke.” Yet if Wade’s new ...

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A record of medieval live comedy performance has been identified in a 15th-century manuscript, giving the “rarest glimpse of a medieval world rich in oral storytelling and popular entertainments”. Dr ...

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Of all the medieval people who sound as though they should be made up, Roland le Pettour, also known as Roland le Fartere, must be near the top of the list. An entertainer who worked for Henry II, ...

Market stalls, medieval fighting and a row of highly polished cars from the 1970s took over the main street of an isolated town near the Taranaki border on Saturday. Ohura has a population of 160 and ...

When did Britain get its sense of humour? New evidence suggests that Britons were game for a gag as early as medieval times. A manuscript from the 15th century, decrypted by University of Cambridge ...