Frances Eustace holds a recent doctorate in Medieval Studies from the University of Bristol. She is a professional musician and a qualified Dance Movement Therapist. She has been part of the HIP (Historically Informed Performance) movement in Britain since the 1980s and plays bassoons, viols, and bagpipes, among other instruments.

• PrefaceIntroductionChapter One: Carolling and Dance-Song in the Context of a Primarily Oral CultureChapter Two: Courtly Carolling: Contexts and PracticesChapter Three: The Church, Carolling and the Emergence of the English Franciscan Carole Writers of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth CenturiesChapter Four: Carole Texts in Context: The ManuscriptsChapter Five: Carole Texts as Witnesses to Carolling PracticeChapter Six: Survivances of Carolling in Folk Culture

Frances Eustace holds a recent doctorate in Medieval Studies from the University of Bristol. She is a professional musician and a qualified Dance Movement Therapist. She has been part of the HIP (Historically Informed Performance) movement in Britain since the 1980s and plays bassoons, viols, and bagpipes, among other instruments.

• PrefaceIntroductionChapter One: Carolling and Dance-Song in the Context of a Primarily Oral CultureChapter Two: Courtly Carolling: Contexts and PracticesChapter Three: The Church, Carolling and the Emergence of the English Franciscan Carole Writers of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth CenturiesChapter Four: Carole Texts in Context: The ManuscriptsChapter Five: Carole Texts as Witnesses to Carolling PracticeChapter Six: Survivances of Carolling in Folk Culture

Frances Eustace holds a recent doctorate in Medieval Studies from the University of Bristol. She is a professional musician and a qualified Dance Movement Therapist. She has been part of the HIP (Historically Informed Performance) movement in Britain since the 1980s and plays bassoons, viols, and bagpipes, among other instruments.

• PrefaceIntroductionChapter One: Carolling and Dance-Song in the Context of a Primarily Oral CultureChapter Two: Courtly Carolling: Contexts and PracticesChapter Three: The Church, Carolling and the Emergence of the English Franciscan Carole Writers of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth CenturiesChapter Four: Carole Texts in Context: The ManuscriptsChapter Five: Carole Texts as Witnesses to Carolling PracticeChapter Six: Survivances of Carolling in Folk Culture