Crossword-Solution: JOCULATORES 11 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 20

Payments to minstrels were commonly made by monks: at Bicester Priory, for example (1431), and at Maxstoke, where _mimi_, _joculatores_, _jocatores_, _lusores_, and _citharistae_ were hired.

The joyous Penitents who loved to call themselves _Joculatores Domini_, God's _jongleurs_, no doubt often did the same.[10] They did even better, for not willing to be a charge to anyone, they passed a part of the day in aiding the peasants in their field work.[11] The inhabitants of these districts are for the most part kindly and sedate; the friars soon gained their confidence by relating to them first their history and then their hopes.

They were used by jugglers or players, "joculatores," nomadic sometimes, and sometimes belonging to the household of the great.

How far the _joculatores_--which in the early middle ages came to be the name most widely given to these irresponsible transmitters of a great artistic trust--kept alive the usage of entertainments more essentially dramatic than the minor varieties of their performances, we cannot say.

The literature of the _troubadours_ of Provence, which communicated itself to Spain and Italy, came only into isolated contact with the beginnings of the religious drama; in northern France the _jongleurs_, as the _joculatores_ were now called, were confounded with the _trouvères_, who, to the accompaniment of _vielle_ or harp, sang the _chansons de geste_ commemorative of deeds of war.