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.
Patience
One of the four works by the so-called Gawain- or Pearl-poet on the subject of Christian patience.
Patience
One of the four works by the so-called Gawain- or Pearl-poet on the subject of Christian patience.
Pearl
The poet's dead two-year-old daughter comes to him in a dream vision, showing him the way to the Heavenly Jerusalem, though he must die later in order to be able to cross over the river dividing this world from the world hereafter. She is his Pearl.
Pearl
The poet's dead two-year-old daughter comes to him in a dream vision, showing him the way to the Heavenly Jerusalem, though he must die later in order to be able to cross over the river dividing this world from the world hereafter. She is his Pearl.
Performing Christ and Satan: The York Temptation of Christ and Harrowing of Hell Live at Kalamazoo
This was a Live at Kalamazoo performance during the 50th ICMS Congress in 2015. Directed by Joe Ricke and a company we will call The York Players.
Performing Middle English Romance
Were medieval romances usually sung rather than read? These two CDs and accompanying booklet suggest the sorts of music available to sing Middle English romances in Britain as well as dramatic reading of these romances.
Performing Middle English Romance
Were medieval romances usually sung rather than read? These two CDs and accompanying booklet suggest the sorts of music available to sing Middle English romances in Britain as well as dramatic reading of these romances.
Piers Plowman, the B-Text: The Complete Recording in Middle English
Written by William Langland, this 14th-century Middle English work of alliterative poetry is one of the major poems of Middle English, appearing as a series of dream visions by the narrator Will. Directed by Michael Calabrese.
Piers Plowman, the B-Text: The Complete Recording in Middle English
Written by William Langland, this 14th-century Middle English work of alliterative poetry is one of the major poems of Middle English, appearing as a series of dream visions by the narrator Will. Directed by Michael Calabrese.
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.
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.
Selected Middle English Lyrics
Holy and secular lyrics gathered from over the centuries of Middle English Verse.
Selected Middle English Lyrics
Holy and secular lyrics gathered from over the centuries of Middle English Verse.
Selected Readings from A New Introduction to Old Norse
From a gathering of Icelandic native readers directed by Alison Finley of Birkbeck College, University of London. These readings come from the Viking Society's A New Introduction to Old Norse reader, which has highlights from some of the major Eddas.