Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-ix

List of illustrations

pp x-xii

List of music examples

pp xiii-xiii

List of abbreviations

pp xiv-xv

A note on references

pp xvi-xvi

A note on money

pp xvii-xviii

A note on dates

pp xix-xxi

Preface

pp xxii-xxviii

Acknowledgments

pp xxix-xxx

Part I - Minstrels and Minstrelsy in the Elite Households

pp 1-2

1 - The royal households and their minstrels

pp 3-13

2 - The life of a royal minstrel

pp 14-48

3 - Recruitment, training and retirement

pp 49-72

4 - Minstrelsy at Court

pp 71-96

5 - Minstrelsy in noble and ecclesiastical households

pp 99-126

Part II - Urban Minstrelsy

pp 127-128

6 - Minstrelsy in the towns

pp 129-145

7 - Civic minstrels

pp 146-162

Part III - On the Road

pp 163-166

8 - Minstrels on the road

pp 167-182

9 - Minstrel itineraries

pp 183-197

10 - The regulation and protection of minstrels

pp 198-226

Part IV - Minstrel Performance

pp 227-234

11 - The enigma of the minstrels’ songs

pp 235-268

12 - Professional recitation before the fourteenth century

pp 268-289

13 - Minstrels and heralds and chivalric fame

pp 291-314

14 - Instruments and performers

pp 315-361

15 - The instrumental repertory in England

pp 362-394