CENTERCHEAP MARKET SQUARE

11:45 Recorder & Voice by Amy Fass

12:00 Paul Ash: Music on Period Instruments

12:30 Friar Nyp plays her Kemence

1:00 “Asteria” Presented by Gotham Early Music Scene

1:30 The Broad Street Troubadours

2:00 Jeff the Wandering Minstrel

2:30 Paul Ash: Music on Period Instruments

3:00 Friar Nyp plays her Kemence

3:30 Recorder & Voice by Amy Fass

4:00 St Spyridon's, The Very Reverend Father George Passias speaks on Greek iconography in the Byzantine era

Servant

There were advantages and disadvantages of being a domestic Servant. Though the work was often tedious, menial and hard it was worthwhile if you were in service to a kind lord or master. However, the difficult work when coupled with a rude or abusive employer often led to hardship throughout a Servant's life.

Usually Servants were conscripted if they possessed talents and abilities that were useful inside a castle. Such things as cooking, baking, sewing, dying, weaving or performing music could attract the attentions of a local lord. If these conditions were met and the service was satisfactory, the Servant enjoyed the mild benefit and protection of working within a castle.

sometimes victorious knights would take their prisoners back to their homelands and indenture them as Servants. This could be most embarrassing if the capture person was an enemy knight. But while waiting to be ransomed or in order to work off his debt, the enemy knight had no other choice but o lower himself to the dutiful position of a Servant.