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Middle Ages

Aesop's Fables
 *Special Note: About the only thing that goes back to ancient Greece, is the name Aesop. The fables were, primarily, written by monks in the monasteries


Alfred, King
      King Alfred - On Kingship (tr. of De Consolatione Philosophiae by Bothius 890s

Alighieri, Dante
          The Divine Comedy Blackstone Audiobooks
          
Divine Comedy: Inferno, Stirling Bridge, Cliff Notes
          Divine Comedy: Purgatorio, Cliff Notes
          Divine Comedy: Paradiso, Recorded Books, Inc., Cliff Notes

Anglo Saxon Chronicle

Arthur, King
          King Arthur references
              The Annales of Cambriae (AD 970)
              Exhumation of King Arthur's body (AD 1190)
    Jordanes
                  The Gothic History (467 AD)
              Gildas, St.
                   Concerning the Ruin of Britain (540 AD)
              Elegy for Geraint (AD 480)

Asser
          Asser's Life of King Alfred

Atkinson, Rick
         Crusade Blackstone Audiobooks

 

Bede, The Venerable
         Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People

Beowulf, Cliff Notes
         Olde English: Caedmon Audio
         Modern English: Penguin Audiobooks*

Bradford, Ernle
        The Great Siege

Bulfinch, Thomas
       The Age of Chivalry Blackstone Audiobooks & Audio Editions
       Legends of Charlemagne

Cantor, Norman F.
      Civilization of the Middle Ages Blackstone Audiobooks
      Inventing the Middle Ages Blackstone Audio Books

Chaucer, Geoffrey
      Canterbury Tales, Audio Editions, Stirling Bridge, Cliff Notes
                   Caedmon has done an excellet audio tape on The Wife of Bath
      Chanticleer and the Fox
      Chaucers Wordes unto Adam, His Owne Scriveyn
      The Compleint of Chaucer to His Empty Purse
      The Parliament of Fowls, the song Gentilesse

Costain, Thomas B.
       William the Conqueror

Kevin Crosslwy-Holland (tr.)
          The Exeter Book of Riddles

Dante
         Divine Comedy: Inferno, Stirling Bridge, Cliff Notes
         Divine Comedy: Purgatorio, Cliff Notes
         Divine Comedy: Paradiso, Recorded Books, Inc., Cliff Notes

Einhard
         The Life of Charlemagne
         Letters
         On the Translation and the Miracles of SS.
         Adoration of the Cross

Foxe, John
         Foxe's Book of Martyrs Blackstone Audiobooks

Henty, G. A.
        The Dragon and the Raven: Or the Days of King Alfred
                    (ISBN #1-887159-01-0)
        In Freedom's Cause: A Story of Wallace & Bruce
                    (ISBN #1-887159-03-7)       
       Winning His Spurs: A Tale of the Crusades
                    (ISBN #1-887159-13-4)    
       Wulf the Saxon: A Story of the Norman Conquest
                    (ISBN #1-887159-17-7)

Hinde, Thomas (Editor)
        The Doomesday Book: England's Heritage, Then & Now

Hope (Hawkins), Anthony
        The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) Blackstone Audiobooks

Hourani, Albert
        A History of the Arab Peoples Blackstone Audiobooks

Joinville
        Chronicles of the Crusades Stirling Bridge

Kelly, Eric
        The Trumpeter of Krakow

Magna Charta

Malory, Sir Thomas
         LeMorte d'Arthur Highbridge Classics, Stirling Bridge, Cliff Notes

Notker the Stammerer
        The Life of Charlemagne

Patrick, Saint
           The Confessions of Saint Patrick

Peters, Ellis
          Chronicles of Brother Cadfael
                Leper of St. Giles Blackstone Audiobooks
                Monk's Hood Blackstone Audiobooks
                A Morbid Taste for Bones Blackstone Audiobooks
                One Corpse Too Many Blackstone Audiobooks
                The Rose Rent Blackstone Audiobooks
                Saint Peter's Fair Blackstone Audiobooks

Polo, Marco
               The Travels of Marco Polo Blackstone Audiobooks

Porter, Jane
               The Scottish Chiefs

Pyle, Howard
             The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883) Blackstone Audiobooks
             Men of Iron (1891)
             Knights of the Round Table (1903)
             Otto of the Silver Hand
             The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
             The Story of the Champions of the Round Table
             The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions
             The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur
             Wonder Clock

Saxon Chronicles

Schiller, Frederick
            Joan of Arc (1801)
           William Tell (1804)

Shakespeare, William
           Hamlet (1603) Audio Editions (BBC), Cliff Notes
           The Tragedy of King Lear BBC Radio, Cliff Notes
           Macbeth (1606) Audio Editions (BBC), Cliff Notes

Sir Gawain and the Green Night

The Song of Roland

Twain, Mark
             A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) Cliff Notes
             Joan of Arc Blackstone Audiobooks

Middle Ages Popular Ballads

The Twa Sisters
Lord Randal
Edward
Hind Horn
The Twa Corbies
Thomas Rymer
The Cherry-Tree Carol
Sir Patrick Spens
The Unquiet Grave
The Wife of Usher's Well
Bonnie Barbara Allan
Johnnie Armstrong

Misc.

The Cuckoo Song
Alsoun
The Matchless Maiden
Bless the Time the Apple Was Taken!
The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman

 

Special Videos:

You will probably need to do an interlibrary loan from a local university for these videos. They are not "Hollywood" style. Obviously, I have not seen all these videos. However, the ones that I have seen have spurred me on to make them a recommendation. It must be stated that these videos are not from a Christian worldview perspective, but they do have many redeeming qualities (i.e., information hard to obtain in any other manner short of visiting a particular country!) Therefore, I would love to hear comments from anybody that has previewed a particular video or videos for feedback!

Rolland Collection
Carved in Ivory
Looking at a Castle
Castles of Northunmberland
French Romanesque Art
Romanesque Painters
Romanesque Architecture of Alsace
Romanesque Architecture of Burgandy
Romanesque Architecture of Languedoc
Romanesque Architecture of Poitou-Charente
Romanesque Architecture of Provence
Pierres d'Etoiles (Gems of Stone)
The Norman Conquest of England
English Romanesque Art
Pisa, Story of a Cathedral Square
The Romanesque in Austria
And They Sang a New Song
Popular Art in Brittany
The Master Builders: The Construction of a Great Church
Looking at an Abbey
Building an Abbey: Rievaulx
Villard de Honnecourt: Builder of Cathedrals
Visions of Light
Art in the Making: Italian Painting before 1400
The Birth of European Painting
Dijon: The Four Grand Dukes of Burgundy
An Eye for Detail
Van Eyck (Parts One and Two)
Beaune: Rogier van der Weyden
Buldings and Beliefs

 


      
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