The Reeve's Tale
The tale of two Northern lads who, in trying to protect the wheat grown to feed fellow students at their hall in Cambridge University, get entangled with a miller and his family.
The Second Nun’s Tale
The Nun accompanying the Prioress tells this tale of St. Catherine: one of the legends or lives of the saints stories included in Chaucer's selection of most of the genres of narrative available in his day.
The Second Shepherds’ Play: A Live Reading at Kalamazoo
This medieval mystery play depicts a mock nativity presided over by the sheep thief Mak with his wife Gill as his accomplice. Oddly enough, the Nativity of Christ follows before the witnessing winter-cold shepherds of West Yorkshire.
The Shipman’s Tale
A tale that may have been meant for the Wife of Bath originally, the Shipman's fabliau satirizes a Parisian merchant who is not paying his wife enough attention, making her an easy target for the merchant's good friend, the monk Don John.
The Squire's Tale
Recorded in Somerset in July 2006 with Tom Burton and Paul Thomas and with Zina Peterson in 2010 in Provo, Utah.
The Summoner’s Tale
The Summoner and the Friar trade tales demeaning the other's profession in the Church. In this tale the friar ends up with an offering just about anyone could give him. But the scholastic dilemma becomes how to share his gift with his brothers?
The Tale of Melibee
One of two prose tales included in the twenty-four extant Canterbury Tales. After having been stopped telling his "drasty" "rime dogerel" Tale of Sir Thopas, Chaucer tells this "litel thyng in prose."
The Vâices That Be Gone: Selected Poems from William Barnes’s Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect
(First Collection, 1844)
The CD contains Tom Burton's live reading of some of William Barnes's Dorset dialect poems at the 2009 Adelaide Fringe.
The Weddynge of Sir Gawen and Dame Ragnell
A DVD download recording of this entire tale as acted out by Linda Marie Zaerr in all the parts, male and female. A lively presentation in Middle English, clearly delivered, of this analogue of the Wife of Bath's Tale.
The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale
The Prologue here exceeds the length of the Tale. The Wife is surely one of Chaucer's "types," but she is also a wonderfully complex character at the same time. Has this woman turned the medieval world upsodoun? What is it women want most?
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.
Towneley Plays: Live at Kalamazoo
The group that has come to be known as the Towneley Players performed these four plays from the Towneley MS over three Congresses at Kalamazoo where about 3,000 medievalists from all over the world gather each year. Two CDs.
Troilus and Criseyde
This single MP3 CD contains a Middle English reading of the entire text of Troilus and Criseyde recorded in Burnaby, BC. Make sure you have a CD player (or any DVD player) that can play MP3 CDs. Most new CD players built since 2003 can play this new CD.
Voicing Medieval Women
Half of the recordings/texts are in Middle English, written by or about women; about one-quarter of the texts/recordings are from works in Old Norse and another quarter are from Old French, Provencal, or Anglo-Norman.
Wartburgkrieg & Tannhaüser Ballade
The Wartburgkrieg was performed and recorded at the Kulturquartier in Vienna on 31 May 2006 with performances by Reinhold Wiedenmann and Eberhard Kummer, and the Tannhaüser Ballade was performed by Eberhard Kummer.