Ménestrel

The ménestrels are Musicien S. They generally play of the psaltérion, trumpet S, blowtorch (kind of flute) and Organon (small portable organ with bellows).

A ménestrel was a kind of Barde European Moyen-âge; he sang stories which spoke about distant countries or which told imaginary events, realities or. Sometimes they created themselves, often they by heart learned the accounts from the others, leaves to embellish them. More refined and more demanding courses seigneuriales becoming, the ménestrels there were finally replaced by troubadours and much were made ménestrels wandering, addressing to the public cities. In this form, the art of the ménestrels continued to be tasted until the medium of the Renaissance, although it did not cease declining as of the end of XVe century. At the beginning, the ménestrels were simply servants of the courses seigneuriales (literally their name means precisely small servants and comes from low-Latin ministralis , the servant) and their task was to distract the lord and his entourage with chansons de geste or their local equivalent.

In England before the Conquest Norman, one knew the professional poets under the name of scôp (“shaper” i.e. “manufacturer”), they composed themselves their poetries and sang them while being accompanied by a rudimentary Harpe. Well below the scôp , one knew also the gleemen , which were not fixed nowhere, but wandered from one place to another, gaining what they could. At the end of XIIIe century, the ménestrel term started to get busy to appoint an interpreter who distracted his lord with music and songs.

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the Ménestrels are also a secret organization in the imaginary Monde of the forgotten Royaumes.

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