The Chaucer Studio Titles

ACMRS is the North American distributor for select publications of the The Chaucer Studio, a nonprofit organization assisted by the English disciplines of the University of Adelaide and Brigham Young University. It was founded in 1986 by members of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, with the aim of producing cassette recordings of medieval English texts at very low prices.

The titles listed below can be ordered directly from ACMRS by contacting:

Roy Rukkila
Managing Editor, ACMRS
Arizona State University
P.O. Box 874402
Tempe, AZ 85287-4402

Phone: (480) 727-6503
Fax: (480) 965-1681
mrts@asu.edu

North American shipping fees (U.S. dollars):
U.S. and Canada: $5 for the first volume, plus $2 for each additional title/copy.

All volumes are priced as marked and subject to change without notice.

To see all The Chaucer Studio publications, visit their web page at creativeworks.byu.edu/chaucer/Default.aspx

Old English

A Reading of Beowulf, Revised Edition
Written by Edward B. Irving, Jr.

Newly edited and revised by Paul Thomas and completely reset typographically, with a new preface by Katherine O’Brien O’Keefe and an appendix chapter by Don W. Chapman on major Beowulf scholarship in the years since Ted's book was published. The original 1958 edition appeared in hardback from Yale UP, an edition out of print for many years. The Chaucer Studio Press edition makes this careful interpretation by Ted Irving available again but this time in inexpensive paperback format. This book is an excellent starting point for personal research or class discussions based on careful reading of the text and represents Ted Irving's style of teaching during his long career at the University of Pennsylvania, where he became one of America's foremost Old English/Anglo-Saxon professors.

Ribaudie and Repentanche: Old French Comic Fabliaux and Moral Tales
Readers: Brian Levy, Adrian Tudor, and Alan Hindley
Recorded at at the University of Hull 2003

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.

Includes: Le Prestre crucefié, Cele qui fu foutue sur la tombe, La Grue, Crapaud, Les Perdris, Les Trois bossus, Ivresse, Le Couvoiteus et l’Envieus, Les Quatre souhais st. Martin, Merlot, and Du Vilain asnier.

2004 / Paperback and CD / ISBN 0-8425-2590-4 / $20.00

The Poetics of Alliteration
Reader: Alan T. Gaylord
Recorded at Hanover, New Hampshire 1998

Selections from: ‘Brotherhood of Men,’Cædmon’s Hymn, Widsith, Beowulf, ‘Junk,’ Wynnere and Wastoure, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Piers Plowman, Pearl, ‘A Bird in Bishopswood,’ ‘The Blacksmiths,’ The Harley Lyrics (‘Alysoun,’ ‘Spring’), ‘Nou is tyme to take my leve,’ The Chester Mystery Plays (I, Lucifer; VIII, Herod and the Magi), The York Mystery Plays (The Harrowing of Hell), and The Mysteries (Tony Harrison).

The booklet is an expansion of a plenary address given at SEMA’s annual conference in 1998.

Paperback and CD / ISBN 978-0-8425-2665-4 / $15.00

Voicing Medieval Women
Readers: Linda Paterson, Karen Pratt, Jane Taylor (Provençal and Old French), Rosamund Allen, Ruth Evans, David Mills, Felicity Riddy, Jackie Tasioulas, Elizabeth Williams, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Middle English), Andrew Hamer, Judith Jesch, Carolyne Larrington (Old Norse)

Recorded at the University of Liverpool. 1993

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.

CD1:
La Comtessa de Dia: ‘A chantar m’er de so q’ieu no volria’
Sirventes: ‘No puesc mudar no diguas mon vejaire’
Marie de France: Laostic
Christine de Pisan: ‘Doulce chose est que mariage’, ‘O dure Mort! Tu m’as desheritée’
From Le Livre de Mutacion de Fortune
From Le Livre des Trois Vertus
The Book of Trotula: ‘The Differences between Men and Women’
From A Letter on Virginity for the Encouragement of Virgins
From The Owl and the Nightingale
Lyric: ‘Off alle women þat euer were borne’
William Dunbar: from Tretis of the Twa Mariit Wemen and the Wedo
From The Boke of Margery Kempe (chs. 3, 21)
William Dunbar: from Tretis of the Twa Mariit Wemen and the Wedo
From The Boke of Margery Kempe (ch. 76). De clerico et puella
From þe Wohunge of ure Lauerd

CD2:
Skáldskaparmál
From Hávamál
Kormáks saga (ch. 6)
Runic Inscriptions. Hildr, Jórunn, Gunnhildr, Steinunn.
Gu rúnarhvo? t.
Gísla Saga (ch. 17)
Sir Thomas Malory: from Morte d’Arthure (Malory’s Elaine of Astolat dies for love)
From the Paston Letters: Margery Brews to John Paston III, Margaret Paston to Her Son John Paston II
From La3amon’s Brut: Tonwen intervenes between her sons
Maude [Mechthild of Hackeborn]: from The Book of Spiritual Grace (Mechthild’s vision of a dead daughter)
‘What-so men seyn’ (Findern MS.)
A Letter from Joan Keteryche, Abbess of Denny, to John Paston I
Julian of Norwich: from A Revelation of Love (chs. 59–60, long version)
Bridget of Sweden: from The Booke of Hevenly Reuelacyons (liber celestis) (The mother from Hell)

2003 / Two CDs with accompanying dual-language text / $25.00

"Seyd in forme and reverence": Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr.
Edited by T.L. Burton and John F. Plummer

"Emerson L. Brown, Jr.: Some Bio-Bibliographical Notes," John F. Plummer

The Canterbury Tales