Image credit: Border Fragment with Musical Angel, ca. 1140-1144. From the ambulatory and crypt of the church of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis, Saint Benedict Window. New York, The Metropolitan Museum ...
LUDUS and the Program in Medieval Studies present “Medieval Song and the Sounding of World, Body, and Imagination:” a lecture-performance by Sarah Kay and Concordian Dawn. “Almost everything we might ...
Composer Sarah Kirkland Snider, one of today’s foremost contemporary voices, created the libretto and music to tell the story ...
An English Ladymass: Medieval chant and polyphony (Anonymous 4; Harmonia Mundi). Here is a remarkable feat of historical reconstruction. Most large churches and cathedrals in medieval England had ...
Sung in Middle English. Performer(s): Russell Oberlin, countertenor; Seymour Barab, tenor viol. Table of contents St. Godric songs --Worldes blis ne last no throwe --Byrd one brere --Man mei longe him ...
A medieval literary puzzle which has stumped scholars, including M.R. James for 130 years has finally been solved. Cambridge scholars now believe the Song of Wade, a long-lost treasure of English ...
Peterhouse MS 255, the manuscript containing the passage about Wade. King Arthur, Sir Gawain, and plenty of other chivalric characters are still well known in today's culture. But one hero is a huge ...
It takes about 45 minutes to drive from Seattle to Carnation. Go a bit farther and you're in a slightly brightened version of the Dark Ages. Just north of Carnation, in Camlann Medieval Village, you ...