On 6 Mar 2024 I had a party to celebrate the launch of Medieval Sex Lives, the first book launch party I’ve ever had, although it will not be the last! Nigel Bryant gave a lovely appreciation of my book and Joseph W. Mason and Matthew P. Thomson sang the third pastourelle from the subsection of pastourelles in Douce 308 to the tune of a song by Gautier de Coinci with which it shares its versification. I had provided an English singing translation and captured the performance on my phone. In the spirit of there being two women who perform both male and female parts in the robardel in The Tournament at Chauvency — a possibility that gave me much food for thought when writing the book — Matthew and Joe take the parts of the knight and shepherdess, respectively. I post the video below, with permission from the two singers and apologies for the sound recording quality and poor visual-angle, which are both my own fault. Nice to have this though and my thanks to them both.
And, to repost this link, for those of you keen to get a sense of Medieval Sex Lives without having to read it, I talk about its basic rationale and contents in a podcast episode on the New Books Network.
Elizabeth Eva Leach 
Congratulations !