A Little Gest of Robin Hood
This CD features a modern translation performed by Bob Frank, who accompanies the text with his guitar. Not a Chaucer Studio performance.
A Student Guide to Chaucer's Middle English
Written by Professor Peter G. Beidler, Emeritus Distinguished Professor at Lehigh University, this user-friendly book will soon make better Middle English readers aloud of Chaucer's poetry.
Alan Gaylord Reads Chaucer: Miller's Tale and Friar's Tale
Our recording of the Friar's Tale has been combined with a reading of the Miller's Tale too by Alan Gaylord.
An Introduction to Medieval Music
On this recording, Linda Marie Zaerr and Joseph A. Baldassarre sing and play on a wide variety of authentic instruments from the medieval and early Renaissance period. The music and poetry of various European countries are represented in this recording.
Anelida and Arcite
One of Chaucer's early works about another Arcite than the one in the Knight's Tale who loves a faithful woman named Anelida. Here read by Helen Cooper who recently retired as Head of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at the University of Cambridge.
Chaucer Aloud: The Varieties of Textual Interpretation
This version incorporates the original sound recordings by many Chaucerian scholars at the appropriate sections in the audio book. Betsy Bowden reads her own writing; Paul Thomas reads excerpts from authors, poets, and scholars.
Chaucer Aloud: The Varieties of Textual Interpretation
This is the 2nd edition of Betsy Bowden's book originally published in 1982 by U Penn Press. Please click on the first paragraph of Long Description to receive your download of Readings by Scholars, representing the Varieties of Textual Interpretation.
Christianity & Culture Conference, 2004: Performances in the Canterbury Cathedral Crypt
This recording features performances by Tom Hanks, Helen Cooper, musical selections by Paul Bracken, and a reading by the late Derek Brewer.
Cleanness
The Gawain-poet's most biblically inspired work, featuring prophets and holy men and women of cleanness from both the Old and New Testaments as major players in this full text of the poem on two CDs.
Dame Sirith
Enter the world of fabliau where Dame Sirith acts as a go-between for would-be lovers such as Wilekin and Margery, the married woman.
Extracts from La3amon’s Brut
The author of this early Middle English work, sometimes known as Lawman, is dealing with the legendary history of Britain, first founded by Brutus or Brut, a great grandson of Aeneas, supposedly. Much Arthurian lore in the larger work with samples here.
Heroic Women in Old and Middle English
Ros Allen's excellent readings in Old and Middle English of portions of several texts about heroic women.
Horn Childe and Maiden Rimnild
A Middle English romance about this legendary English/Danish hero.
Interpretation and Performance: Essays for Alan Gaylord
This festschrift honors the long career of Alan Gaylord, combining close readings and resultant interpretations as well as examination of the art of performing Chaucerian and other medieval Middle English poetry. Fourteen scholars honor Alan.
John Gower’s Confessio Amantis-Selections
Contained in this recording are Gregory Sadlek's selection of episodes from the much longer Confessio Amantis