Pimps and Prodigals
Irina Dumitrescu: Medieval Minstrels, 23 May 2024
Minstrels and Minstrelsy in Late Medieval England
by Richard Rastall and Andrew Taylor.
Boydell, 445 pp., £85, April 2023,978 1 83765 039 2 Show More
by Richard Rastall and Andrew Taylor.
Boydell, 445 pp., £85, April 2023,
“... appear in texts from the period already carry a whiff of nostalgia. But a new book co-authored by Richard Rastall and Andrew Taylor sheds some light on the ways they worked and lived. Rastall and Taylor begin by explaining what minstrels were (no simple task). The word comes from the Anglo-Norman menestral, which could ... ”