La3amon's Brut: The Full Reading Text
La3amon the clerk's beautiful legendary history of Britain in early 13th century Middle English verse is both alliterative and often rhyming. Rosamund Allen has prepared in her usual thorough way to deliver the poetry of the text's 16,095 lines for us.
Late Medieval German Women's Songs
Recorded in Tucson in 2008 by Albrecht Classen at the University of Arizona.
Live at Kalamazoo: The Nun's Priest's Tale
An enthusiastic live performance of Chaucer's mock-heroic beast fable, with the chase scene crowd of animals and neighbors played partly by the audience attending.
Live At Kalamazoo: The York - Fall of Angels, Fall of Man, Abraham and Isaac; The Brome MS Abraham and Isaac
The first two plays were performed live as readers' theatre in May 2009, and the two Abraham and Isaac plays were performed in 2010.
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.
Malory Aloud: A Dramatic Reading of Excerpts from Le Morte Darthur
A group of Malory scholars under the direction of Prof. Tom Hanks of Baylor University gathered at the 20th IAS Congress in Bangor, Wales in 2002 to read some favorite passages from Malory's Morte Darthur. Recorded and produced by Paul Thomas.
Mankind
This live performance by Warren Edminster's Players of the 15th-century morality play Mankind was performed as readers's theatre at the 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies in May 2012.
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.
Michael Alexander Reads Chaucer: The Cook's Tale and a Selection of Short Poems
Readings of Chaucer's Cook's Tale and some favorite short poems of Chaucer's for Michael Alexander, recorded in July 2007 in Wells, Somerset.
Music and Medieval Narrative
Produced by Linda Marie Zaerr at Boise State University in 2010. This is a DVD illustrating Prof. Zaerr's thesis that Medieval Romances were performed live with musical instruments and singing too sometimes.
Music and Medieval Narrative
Produced by Linda Marie Zaerr at Boise State University in 2010. This is a DVD illustrating Prof. Zaerr's thesis that Medieval Romances were performed live with musical instruments and singing too sometimes.
Nibelungenlied
This epic work in Middle High German is one of the more sophisticated and lengthy poems of the Middle Ages. It consists of 39 adventures including Siegfried's fight against the dragon, the deeds of the queen of Iceland Brünhild, and Kriemhild and family.
Old English Elegies and Riddles
Ros Allen's collection of some of the elegies and riddles so typical of the surviving Old English poetic corpus from the Exeter Book, especially, exemplifies how a good reader should read Old English poetry.
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.
Parlement of Foules
It is Valentine's Day, the day each year when Nature allows her birds to choose their mates for the year. But which of the princely eagles will win the hand of the princess formel eagle? The more lowly birds grow impatient with the noble eagles' talking.