Saints, Scholars

Over the past eighteen years, gender has become a major analytical tool in medieval studies.

This is a journey through the music world of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It ends with those composers and those pieces of music that, around 1600, were shaping the sound that we call 'baroque'. Presented chronologically, this extensive collection of works covers sacred and secular music from Italy, France, Germany, Spain, England, Flanders, Portugal and The Netherlands, from a wide range of composers. Includes a comprehensive 76 page booklet charting the history and development of the music included in these specially chosen recordings. An ideal introduction and guide to this fascinating music.

Anglo-Saxon literature and culture, and their subsequent appropriations, unite the essays collected here. They offer fresh and exciting perspectives on a variety of issues, from gender to religion and the afterlives of Old English texts, from reconsiderations of neglected works to reflections on the place of Anglo-Saxon in the classroom.