The town criers of the middle ages were the mass communication devices of their day. They provided the only means for common folk to access official news and information. It worked like this. An officer of the court walked through his medieval town, or stood on a castle watchtower, rang a bell, and bellowed Oyez (Hear Ye), Oyez, […]
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