You can listen to Episode 4 of Season 3 of The WPHP Monthly Mercury, "The Canterbury Fails x The WPHP Monthly Mercury: MONKS!!!" on Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, and other podcast apps, available via Buzzsprout.
What do the medieval period and the Romantic period have in common? Well, at the very least, badly behaved monks. In Episode 4 of Season 3 of The WPHP Monthly Mercury, hosts Kate Moffatt and Kandice Sharren team up with David Coley and Matt Hussey and their podcast, The Canterbury Fails, for our first-ever crossover episode.
Join your eighteenth- and nineteenth-century hosts as they dive into The Choristers' Lament—a Middle English alliterative poem—and revisit a WPHP team favourite, The Three Monks!!! (also featured in S1E5, “Of Monks and Mountains!!!” and Kate’s 2021 Spotlight, “A Gothic Ménage: Guénard, 'The Three Monks!!!', and Translation”) with two medievalists in tow.
The Canterbury Fails podcast is hosted by David Coley and Matt Hussey. If you'd like to hear more about little-read Old and Middle English poetry, you can find them on any reputable podcasting platform, including Apple Podcasts, Audible, and Spotify.
Credits
Produced by: Kandice Sharren, Kate Moffatt, and Michelle Levy
Mixed and mastered by: Alexander Kennard
Music by: Ignatius Sancho, “Sweetest Bard”, A Collection of New Songs (1769) from https://brycchancarey.com/sancho/bard.jpg, and played by Kandice Sharren
David Coley, "The Canterbury Fails" (2021).
WPHP Records Referenced
Guenard, Elisabeth (person)
Sarrett, H.J. (person)
The Three Monks!!! (title)
Works Cited
Difford, Simon. Difford's Guide to Cocktails. Sixteenth edition. Diffordsguide, 2021.
Gagne, Josh, and Alex Flynn. "Tea Cocktail: Sing Like a Bee." Imbibe Magazine, Oct. 26, 2018. https://imbibemagazine.com/recipe/tea-cocktail-sing-like-a-bee/.
Utley, Francis Lee. "The Choristers’ Lament." Speculum, vol. 21, no. 2, Apr. 1946, pp. 194–202. https://doi.org/10.2307/2851316.
This podcast draws on research supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
