Fools and jesters at the English court
Material type:
TextThrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire Sutton c1998Description: viii, 216p.; ill.; bibliog. notes; bibliog.; indexContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0750917733
- GT3670.5.G7 S68 1998
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1 King and fool. 2 The elusive dwarfs. 3 Warrior fools. 4 Norman buffoons. 5 Minstrel fools. 6 The innocents. 7 Tudor innocents. 8 William Somer. 9 The European dimension. 10 Fools to jesters. 11 'Jugler' and jester. 12 Jane: a female innocent. 13 Elizabeth's fools. 14 The player fools. 15 The last of the jesters. 16 Jeffery Hudson: court dwarf. 17 The fools' motley. 18 Mr Nobody
'The focus of this book is a particular type of fool, the court or king's fool, separated from the others by the special relationship he enjoyed with king or ruler as his personal retainer. The author draws on contemporary sources to present a unique, reign-by-reign chronicle of the English court fool from his origins in Carolingian Europe and Celtic Ireland to Archy Armstrong, jester to James I.'
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