The Dilemmas of Being Emma

historical-nonfiction:

Wandering entertainers in the Middle Ages, who kept the huddled masses from killing themselves, had a really bad deal. They were usually dirty, poor, and considered criminals—even if they were never actually accused of a specific crime. By the end of the 1400s, a vagrant could be arrested on the charge of nothing more than “suspicious wandering.”

Those darn musicians and their suspicious wandering!