Jesters+or+Fools

= ​ 1. Questions= 1) I wonder if they had to go through special training like a knight? 2) I wonder how much respect and rights they got? 3) I wonder if they were employed by the king or a slave? 4) I wonder what colors represented them? ​ 5) I wonder if they had to fight in wars?​

= = =2. Inferences=
 * 1) I think they did because they had to learn all the juggling and entertainment somewhere. Maybe it was like a guild, you studied for a long time and made a "masterpiece" expect in this case it'd be a performance.
 * 2) I think that they got more repsect than peasants and serfs but not as much as a lord, probably close to a knight. I think this because knights and lord served a major purpose but fools and jesters served a service usually only a king could get. Therefore many people didnt know them or could not fully appericate them. The ones that performed at holidays and festivals got less respect then the Kings personal fool who got much more respect.

= = =3. Resources=
 * [|Variety of Jester Information]
 * [|Tons of Informatioin about Jesters]
 * [|More Jester Info]
 * [|Very Short Info]
 * [|Medium Info]

= = =4. Summary= While researching about jesters or fools I have learned that they had to go through training like a knight, they were not just in Europe but everywhere around the world and finally each one was a little different depending on where he came from. Their training was a mix between a guild and a knight's. Although you didn't have to be rich it was still just as hard. For example they woke up early and practiced usually with an individual master but could sometimes pick up tricks from jester group s a lot like guilds. When I thought of jesters or fools I thought of a wierd funny guy performing in some gigantic castle in Europe. That is no true, in fact they were everywhere. All over Europe and all the way to the tip of Asia (that includes Africa). But not all were the same it depended on where you were from that determined how your act was. If you were form Asia it's more based on their cultures and legends, which are very different than the European tales. In Europe it'd be more of the traditional routine,they would do all the things we think of, including funny clothes juggling balls and weird humor. In Asia it could be much different, they were more entertainers than funny people. In China or Japan you could be dressed in specail robes juggling fire or using life size puppets.These jesters had all different names, some Asian ones were Shuo and Karim Shir'ei. European names were Will Summer, Paul West and Claus Finsse. As you can see all jesters were unquie and funny in different ways, I think we'd be much more bland now if we didnt have them then, that was just some short facts I'd like to share with you.

= = =5. References= [|www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/64091.html]