Being an entertainer was considered one of the lowest professions, right above criminal.
Oh ?
So thats why nobles and knights became troubadours ? Because they didnt liked their high station in society and wanted to try out the opposite ?
I also wasnt aware about, say, Shakespeare's low station among his contemporaries until this moment.
Or Dante Aligheri, I can almost sense he must have been hardly above a criminal for his contemporaries, for sure !
What time and place exactly are you talking about where bards supposedly had a low social status ?
