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Author_John Southworth
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King's Servant
Minstrel
Musician
Narrative Perspective
Power
Profession
Versatility
Product details
- ISBN 9780851155364
- Weight: 456g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Nov 1989
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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As a popular history [it] has considerable merits and offers a number of interesting suggestions. SPECULUM
Goes deeper than the history of a profession: it suggests a new way of looking at the exercise of power useful and rewarding. Eric Christiansen in the DAILY TELEGRAPH
Originally the word `minstrel' meant `littleservant to the king'and the crux of the profession was versatility musical skills were never enough in themselves. Fools, acrobats, singers, conjurors and puppeteers, this is the first book to tell the whole of the minstrels' story and put it into a developing historical perspective.
