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The Songs and Travels of a Tudor Minstrel: Richard Sheale of Tamworth
Andrew Taylor
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Description for The Songs and Travels of a Tudor Minstrel: Richard Sheale of Tamworth
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
York Medieval Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
York, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781903153390
SKU
V9781903153390
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99-50
About Andrew Taylor
ANDREW TAYLOR is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa.
Reviews for The Songs and Travels of a Tudor Minstrel: Richard Sheale of Tamworth
[A] carefully researched study of one minstrel, one manuscript, and a social world in which they were both living and already taking on an antiqued patina.
JOURNAL OF FOLKLORE RESEARCH
Impressive, productive and insightful.
ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
Contains a wealth of information useful to any student of early modern musical traditions.
HISTORY, December 2013
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JOURNAL OF FOLKLORE RESEARCH
Impressive, productive and insightful.
ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
Contains a wealth of information useful to any student of early modern musical traditions.
HISTORY, December 2013
... Read more