The Songs and Travels of a Tudor Minstrel: Richard Sheale of Tamworth

by Andrew Taylor

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1903153395
• ISBN13: 9781903153390
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: York Medieval Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.4"