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Constance Bullock-Davies.
A Register of Royal and Baronial Domestic Minstrels 1272-1327.
Published Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1986.
ISBN 085115431X.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Size: 161x239x23mm.
Page count: xvi,227pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: the dustjacket on this copy is ragged on its edges and rather grubby; pages starting to yellow with age, but otherwise the book itself looks generally in good order.
This item £8.50
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Publisher’s price £40.00/$80.00]
Weight without packaging: 540g.
This book is a compilation of entries drawn from 13th- and early 14th-century manuscripts, covering the reigns of Edward I and Edward II, and translated from the Latin and Anglo-French of the Exchequer clerks. Its purpose is to provide a nucleus for further studies on the subject in the hope that scholars will be able to extend the range of documents examined and hence the period for which such information is available.
Although the material is prosaic, being nothing more than Wardrobe cash accounts, it supplies a surprising amount of information. It clarifies the enormous difference that existed between the domestic minstrel of royal and baronial households and the wandering one so often portrayed in story; it provides details of contracts of employment, status in hall, hours of work, yardage and colour of twice-yearly outfits, duties, provision of victuals and drink, of candles and bedding, of rates and methods of pay, even the colour and cost of horses provided. In the cases of some of the most important minstrels it is possible to piece together the pattern of their existence: where they lived, the names of their wives and children, when they fell sick, how long they were in office, how well-off they were or how indigent in old age, what property they held and what private business they carried on in the City. All these are facts, not speculations: the picture of the minstrels that emerges is incontestably true.
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