Medievalist Professor Answers Medieval Questions From Twitter: Why Is It called the “Middle” Ages?, What Did Medieval English Sound Like?, and More

From Wired comes this: “Pro­fes­sor of Eng­lish and Medieval Lit­er­a­ture Dr. Dorsey Arm­strong answers your ques­tions about the Mid­dle Ages from Twit­ter. Why is it called the “Mid­dle” Ages? [What did medieval Eng­lish sound like?] What activ­i­ties did peo­ple do for fun? Why were ani­mals tried in court for crimes? Answers to these ques­tions and many more await—it’s Medieval Sup­port.”

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  • Andy Goss says:

    What did Medieval peo­ple do for fun? Music. Every­body sang, at work, at home, at the pub, in church. Choral and instru­men­tal music was every­where, as it still is. Only they had to make their own. Today we lis­ten to record­ed music and are most­ly intim­i­dat­ed by its qual­i­ty from mak­ing our own, but back then there noth­ing to stop you join­ing in. And with music comes danc­ing. And there was the­atre — Shake­speare, Mar­lowe, and many oth­ers. The­atre was huge — no TV then.
    The Puri­tans tried to ban all the above. They failed, though until quite recent­ly British pubs were not allowed to have live music.

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