Poets' guilds

school of poetry

thumb|Hans Sachs, leader of a famous 16th-century Meistersinger school in Nuremberg A '''''' (German for "master singer") was a member of a German guild for lyric poetry, composition and unaccompanied art song of the 14th to 16th centuries. The Meistersingers were drawn from middle class males for the most part.

medieval society (usually guild or confraternity) to patronize music and poetry