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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The language of music is universal, but can be lost over time. After a 20-year reconstruction effort, a researcher and a performer of medieval music have brought "lost" songs from the Middle Ages back ...

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 ...

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 is the kind of year when millions are entertained by a video of four people dancing their way to a graveyard, a coffin on their shoulders. With a raging pandemic, is it surprising that dark humour ...

In a third-floor room in Ireland's oldest university a dragon balancing on two bouncing balls fires a ribbon from his mouth at a nun examining a caped man-seahorse hybrid with a traffic cone on his ...

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 ...