A research contest started by me!

[aelfgifu]

I remember someone at Kingdom A&S (ornerie?) mentioning that there was a picture of a ball (possibly juggling ball) in the Museum of London books. The first person to email me a picture and a citataion with all relevant info gets one of my uber cool if modern glass pumpkins at twelfth night. My email is vandy@vandybennett.com. If you get me a pic second or third etc, but before I post that I recieved the info, you get some of my yummy candied ginger dipped in chocolate at twelfth night, or some other yummy if you don't like chocolate or ginger.

Additionally, anyone who gets me any other picture of extant medieval/renaissance/ancient juggling balls or balls/ball of a juggleable size with appropriate citations gets a cool prize.

And saving the best for last, anyone who gets me an image from a medieval or renaissance illuminated manuscript that shows someone juggling and has appropriate citataions gets a blown glass of their choice of style (assuming it is within my ability) once my glass shop is up and running.

This is sort of like paying research assistants but cheaper and more fun. ;-)

Comments

[gargoyal3.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. NO good images yet, but tons of articles!
Okay. Found a scholarly article about jesters, http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/society/pop_culture/jesters.shtml

I'm sure you've seen this, but it does have 2 illustrations from medieval manuscripts
http://www.juggling.org/papers/history-1/index.html

Again, I'm sure you've seen this:
http://www.juggling.org/~conway/juggler/Icon/siteswsm.jpeg

On the Symbolism of Juggling: The Moral and Aesthetic Implications of the Mastery of Falling Objects, by Chandler, A.
Source: Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 25, Number 3, Winter 1991, pp. 105-124(20)

Uh, I can print this one for you if you don't have access to JSTOR
Juggling Tricks and Conjury on the English Stage before 1642
Louis B. Wright
Modern Philology, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Feb., 1927), pp. 269-284

this is a book
Drama, Play, and Game: English Festive Culture in the Medieval and Early Modern Period
By Lawrence M. Clopper

This one is partially available on google, and has a bunch of illustrations
Magic on the Early English Stage
By Philip Butterworth

uuuhhhh, not sure I get this :)
Troubadour Song and the Art of Juggling
William E. Burgwinkle
Pacific Coast Philology, Vol. 26, No. 1/2 (Jul., 1991), pp. 13-25
doi:10.2307/1316551



‘‘Pleyng with a erd’’: Folly and Madness in the Prologue and Tale of Beryn
S Harper - Mediaeval Studies, 1985 - muse.jhu.edu

Music in Mediaeval Scotland
Henry George Farmer
Proceedings of the Musical Association, 56th Sess., 1929 - 1930 (1929 - 1930), pp. 69-90

this one is through blackwell, and I can't access it
On the Symbolism Juggling: The Moral and Aesthetic Implications ...

juggling in post biblical jewish sources
http://www.juggler.co.il/jews/Raphael.htm

[aelfgyfu.livejournal.com]

Printing me copies of whatever you can will get you a cool prize too... I have indeed already seen all of the on-line articles on jesters/fools/jugglers but not the Juggling tricks JOSTR article. I am not currently associated with any academic institution, so if you get free ILL articles, feel free to hook me up. Will trade postage of articles for postage of cool prize... ;-)

[gargoyal3.livejournal.com]

Oky doky!

YAY FOR GLASS!!!! I don't have any glass, so will be perfectly happy to print off copies for you. Let me know if you have any possible citations you want ordered :)