An itinerant poet or strolling minstrel (also known variously as a gleeman, circler, or cantabank) was a wandering minstrel, bard, or other poet common in medieval Europe but extant today.
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Humanism — • The name given to the intellectual, literary, and scientific movement of the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, which aimed at basing every branch of learning on the literature and culture of classical antiquity Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin … Catholic encyclopedia
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Circler — Cir cler, n. A mean or inferior poet, perhaps from his habit of wandering around as a stroller; an itinerant poet. Also, a name given to the cyclic poets. See under {Cyclic}, a. [Obs.] B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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Stricker — Der Stricker was the pseudonym of a 13th century Middle High German itinerant poet whose real name has been lost to history. His works include a German adaptation of the Song of Roland , an epic, Karl and an Arthurian romance, Daniel von… … Wikipedia
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