Selections from Confessio Amantis

Read by Brian Gastle. Recorded by Bruce Frazier at Western Carolina University's Center for Applied Technology. Text: Peck, Russell A. Confessio Amantis. Medieval Academy of America. Toronto: U Toronto P, 1997 (1980).

• Prologue
  • Opening (lines 1-92) 4:02/4.7mb
  • The State (lines 93-192) 4:19/5mb
  • The Church (lines 193-498) 12:41/14.9mb
  • The Commons (lines 499-584) 4:02/4.7mb
• Book One
  • Opening (lines 1-332) 15:50/18.6mb
  • Tale of Acteon (lines 333-388) 2:47/3.3mb
  • Tale of Florent (lines 1407-1875) 23:13/27.2mb

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External

• TEAMS Middle English Text Series - Audio Readings
  Selections include the Tale of Canace and Machaire (3.143-336), The Patience of Socrates (3.639-713), the Tale of Ulysses and Penelope (4.147-233), Tale of Rosiphelee (4.1245-1446), Alchemy (4.2435-2525), On Avarice (5.60-116), and Rhetoric, the Second Part of Philosophy (7.1507-1587).