Is there a minstrel in the house?: domestic entertainment in late medieval England.(Report)

Philological Quarterly | January 1, 2008| | Copyright

Medievalists have been arguing about minstrels for nearly two and a half centuries. This argument is both older than, and fundamental to, medieval studies as an academic discipline. Indeed, perhaps the only older, longer-running argument in the study of medieval literature concerns editorial techniques, and that argument has itself often become tangled up in questions of oral composition. In England, the opening salvo came in Thomas Percy's 1765 Essay on the Ancient Minstrels, a work that envisioned a glorious, unbroken history of the minstrel as the "genuine successor" of ...

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