La Chanson de Roland: An Epitome

Choosing carefully from the full La Chanson de Roland text (based on Whitehead's edition), Dr. Paul Bracken, a gifted literary and musical man, put together parts of this epic text highlighting the main narrative in about 42 performed minutes.

Maistre Pathelin

This fifteenth-century farce is the first drama recorded by The Chaucer Studio in Old French. Each of the ten tracks is an individual scene.

Marie de France-Selections from the Lais: ‘Guigemar’ and ‘Fresne’

Miriam Rheingold Fuller has chosen these Arthurian Anglo-Norman lais from Marie de France. These powerful short tales may have been composed by the sister of Henry II of England. In her Lais, Marie describes courtly love in a variety of couples.

Or dient et content et fabloient: Four Centuries of Old French Verse

This CD represents recordings of Old French verse that show the changing pronunciation of this medieval language from the 11th to the 15th centuries. A booklet explaining the changes in pronunciation accompanies the CD version only, not the download.

Ribaudie and Repentanche: Old French Comic Fabliaux and Moral Tales

Brian Levy's last recording in Old French before his untimely and early death, this collection brings together both comic French medieval fabliaux mixed with the exemplary tales for preaching that were often closely associated with them in a holy version.

Thirteenth Century Old French Pastourelle Motets

In a recording of some 34 tracks, Chris Callahan reads these Old French poems first, followed by a musical performance in Old French by the IWU Trio.