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Jongleurs is a chain of comedy clubs in the United Kingdom, running since 1983. ... The sites in Oxford and Nottingham were later reopened by rival chain The Glee Club.
Jongleurs may refer to: Jongleur, another word for a medieval minstrel; Jongleurs (comedy club) This page was last edited on 6 June 2022, at 12:11 (UTC). Text ...
The music of the troubadours and trouvères was performed by minstrels called joglars (Occitan) or jongleurs (French). As early as 1321, the minstrels of Paris were formed into a guild. [6] A guild of royal minstrels was organized in England in 1469. [6] Minstrels were required to either join the guild or abstain from practising their craft.
The Puy is less well-documented than the contemporary Confrérie des jongleurs et bourgeois d'Arras, and the two are sometimes conflated. [1] The statutes of the Puy d'Arras do not survive, only the later ones of the Puy d'Amiens from 1471 shed any light on the nature of laws of the puys. The Puy d'Arras was, unlike the Confrérie, neither ...
The Confrérie des jongleurs et bourgeois d'Arras was a fraternity of jongleurs founded in Arras, France, in or around 1175. As its name implies, it was intended for jongleurs (not just trouvères) and the bourgeoisie, not just the knightly class. It also did not hold poetic contests. In these ways it was distinct from the Puy d'Arras.
A fabliau (French pronunciation:; plural fabliaux) is a comic, often anonymous tale written by jongleurs in northeast France between c. 1150 and 1400. They are generally characterized by sexual and scatological obscenity, and by a set of contrary attitudes—contrary to the church and to the nobility. [1]
The earliest chansons were the epic poems performed to simple monophonic melodies by a professional class of jongleurs or ménestrels.These usually recounted the famous deeds (geste) of past heroes, legendary and semi-historical.
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