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 Crusades
The Memoirs of Usamah Ibn-Munqidh
Colombia University Press
Tr. Philip Hitti
ISBN 0-231-12125-3
Unconquered Knight
-the deeds of Don Pero NiƱo, count of Buelna
Diaz de Gamez
Boydell & Brewer
Tr. Joan Evans
ISBN 1-84383-101-5
Philippe de Commynes
The Universal Spider
The Life of Louis XI of France
Tr. and Ed. by Paul Kendall
The Folio Society 1973
Frauendienst: The Service of Ladies
Ullrich von Liechtenstein
Tr. J.W. Thomas
Boydell
ISBN 1 84383 095 7
The Diary of Baron Waldstein
a traveller in Elizabethan England.
Tr. G.W.Groos
Thames & Hudson
ISBN 0 500 01254 7
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
and Lastly, treat yourself. Sit down and watch Kenneth Branagh's Henry V.
It is in my opinion a masterclass in how to set tone in court.
Watch how Branagh switches from Royal Voice to private voice, likewise Monjoie, (The French Herald) and the interplay between the two.
Essex's (Brian Blessed) audience with the king of France is wondrous.
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