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.
John Gower’s Confessio Amantis-Selections
Contained in this recording are Gregory Sadlek's selection of episodes from the much longer Confessio Amantis
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.
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.
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.
The Fox and the Wolf
One of the fables from the Old French Reynardian tradition written in early Middle English.
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.
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.
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.