Some of the books I have at home and have found useful.

 

Shakespeare.

I have the Oxford Shakespeare Complete works, Compact edition

Editors Stanley Wells & Gary Taylor.

 

 

 

Medieval English Lyrics, 1200-1400

Penguin Classics

Ed. Thomas Duncan

ISBN 0-14-043443-7

 

 

Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose

Oxford University Press

Ed. Kenneth Sisam

ISBN 0-19-871093-3

 

 

The Norton Anthology of Poetry

Third Edition

ISBN 0-393 953718

 

There is some crossover between the three above, but I've found them all very handy.

 

 

Somewhat difficult to get hold of, but a wonderfull resource,

 

A Book of London English, 1384-1425

Ed. Chambers & Daunt

Oxford University Press

Pub. 1931 & 1967 

 

Medieval biographies, which I have found great for getting the feeling of what we ought to be trying to say and the proper manner of saying it.

 

an Arab-Syrian gentleman & warrior in the period of the Cusades

The Memoirs of Usamah Ibn-Munqidh

Colombia Uinversity Press

Tr. Philip Hitti

ISBN 0-231-12125-3

 

Unconquered Knight

-the deeds of Don Pero Niño, count of Buelna

Diaz de Gamez

Boydell & Brewer

Tr. Joan Evans

ISBN 1-84383-101-5

 

 

Works I have read but do not own,

 

Sir Nigel, & The White Company

Arthur Conan Doyle

Great works, victorian, but very much after the style of,

 

Sir Jean Froissart

His Chronicles.

The original medieval chronicler & publicist, much translated in numerous different editions.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/FroChro.html

 

There is a wealth of links to primary sources, Most with a military focus, detailed here,

http://www.deremilitari.org/resources/articles/sources.htm

 

For Vocal Training towards being a better Herald,

 

Cicely Barry: Your Voice & How to Use it

 

Cicely Barry: Voice and the Actor

 

J. Clifford Turner: Voice and Speech in the Theatre