The Canterbury Fails

By David Coley and Matt Hussey

Reading marginal, minor, and absolutely unread Old and Middle English poetry, paired with a thematically appropriate cocktail.... more

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The podcast currently has 70 episodes available.

The Canterbury Fails episodes:

January 14, 2023 Rats Away! A Middle English Charm
A broken-down shattered poeticalish charm against vermin with a swingin' big city celebrity tipple.
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36min
December 10, 2022 Excommunication! Curses! Woe!
A fiery blast of excommunication ritual with a literally on fire tequila citrus blowout.
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41min
November 19, 2022 The Book of Quint Essence
An alchemical slog in Middle English prose matched by a neoplatonically perfect cure-all.
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39min
October 28, 2022 Lorica of Laidcenn
God and his army protects every last one of your weird little body parts, while you sip a herbal smoky kick to the the triform brain (and liver).
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45min
October 15, 2022 WPHP Monthly Mercury x Canterbury Fails: MONKS !!!
A late medieval music theory complaint and literally the best most bonkers depraved monk freak show mock-gothic novel paired with a gin-soaked tea (do re mi!) and repugnant Jolly Rancher retro-cocktail. With awesome special guest stars Kandice Sharren and Kate Moffatt.
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1h 4min
September 30, 2022 Voice Crying in the Wilderness
An elegant and informed exposition of John the Baptist's birth paired with a cloudy red seafood drink.
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36min
September 16, 2022 The Babee's Boke
A pedantic grind about table manners with a syrupy cocktail for babies.
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32min
July 30, 2022 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT plus two micro-fails and hotdogwater beer
We interrupt summer hiatus to invite proposals for a live Canterbury Fails: do you want to be on the Fails? We want you to be on the Fails. We're hosting a live participatory episode at Kalamazoo in May 2023. Please listen and submit; website here: wmich.edu/medievalcongress.
Plus two micro-fails: barbaric scrawl and Ovidian lament
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27min
June 24, 2022 A wayle whyt as whalles bone
A maligned Harley lyric about birds in a lady's underclothes paired with a whale-poop tinged concoction: a cetaeceous sazerac.
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42min
June 10, 2022 Whitsunday (Tongues of Fire and a Dove)
A homely homily that keeps things very rote, with the BEST cocktail.
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35min

FAQs about The Canterbury Fails:

How many episodes does The Canterbury Fails have?

The podcast currently has 70 episodes available.