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10/02/2025

09/24/2025

A six-week course exploring medieval music and the intertwined powers of politics and religion.

09/15/2025

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09/06/2025

Free codes from our curator!

Happy National Read a Book Day!
Having trouble with paper? Try audiobooks! I have US and UK Audible codes (free) available for my science fiction novel, Canis Alpha. Request one in the comments.

Synopsis for Canis Alpha: It’s 2075, and criminals known as “scavs” raid disaster-damaged cities. Their most important rule: don’t help the survivors.

Bear, a twenty-nine-year-old engineer, breaks that rule when he takes Salix, a Native American college student, back to his scav team’s flying ship for medical treatment. Captain Baxter allows her to board but will not let her leave.

Salix hopes to escape, but Baxter’s growing obsession with her makes that impossible. As the situation grows tense, a tsunami in Portugal prompts a scav raid. During that raid, Bear discovers blueprints for a device that could change the world. When it becomes clear that Salix’s life is in danger, Bear flees with her, along with the blueprints, but Baxter follows, and he is more dangerous than either of them realize.

08/29/2025

Middle Earth

“If you asked a medieval English-speaker what ‘middle earth’ meant, they likely would have just said ‘the world’, the place where we live. Many of the medieval uses of the term are surprisingly ordinary. A 14th-century romance about Alexander the Great observes, matter-of-factly, that learned people ‘have divided this middle earth into three regions: Europe, Africa and Asia’. What did they think ‘middle earth’ was in the middle of? The sense is that our world is located between other, invisible realms.” —Eleanor Parker, a Lecturer in Medieval English Literature at Brasenose College, Oxford. Read on: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/out-margins/real-middle-earth

08/29/2025

Buckland Abbey recreates music telling of medieval life in extraordinary discovery

08/13/2025

Ancient FM thanks Circle for donating songs from their fantastic new album, “Sing We.” More about it here: https://circle.hearnow.com/sing-we

07/16/2025

If you want to avoid interruptions, please don’t listen to Ancient FM on Chrome’s buggy web browser. Use Firefox, Safari, Brave, etc. Thanks.

07/16/2025

Ancient FM thanks Friederike Chylek for donating four of her wonderful albums to our playlist. Sample them here: https://music.apple.com/ca/artist/friederike-chylek/982946534

07/08/2025

For the first time in nearly five centuries, Buckland Abbey in Devon will resonate once more with the sacred sounds of monastic music, thanks to research into a rare 15th-century manuscript and a collaboration between the National Trust and the University of Exeter.

06/27/2025

North East universities will host the MedRen2025 conference, celebrating Medieval and Renaissance music from June 30 to July 4. This collaborative event...