A new study by a Cambridge English professor explores comedic texts believed to have been written by an unknown medieval minstrel. When did Britain get its sense of humour? New evidence suggests that ...

Medieval traveling minstrels often journeyed hundreds of miles by foot to conferences to learn new songs. Liza Malamut, artistic director of The Newberry Consort, has joined forces with Allison Monroe ...

James Wade is an associate professor of English at the University of Cambridge (University of Cambridge). (CN) — If you take Richard Heege at his word, then the reason so few minstrel tales survived ...

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These comedians had “the instinct to self-ironize, to use crude bodily humor, to use slapstick and situational comedy, and the willingness to make the audience the butt of the joke.” Yet if Wade’s new ...

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A record of medieval live comedy performance has been identified in a 15th-century manuscript, giving the “rarest glimpse of a medieval world rich in oral storytelling and popular entertainments”. Dr ...

Kings, priests and peasants were all at the mercy of medieval comics, a rare manuscript from the 15 th century has revealed. The ‘mad and offensive’ comedy was unearthed at the National Library of ...

When did Britain get its sense of humour? New evidence suggests that Britons were game for a gag as early as medieval times. A manuscript from the 15th century, decrypted by University of Cambridge ...