It's easy to make fun of Orff's setting of these medieval poems celebrating earthly pleasures.
The medieval poem, written, no doubt, by a cleric, was intended for an audience familiar with Ovid.
The opera, based on medieval monastic poems, was first performed in 1937.
He also produced a translation in modern English of the important medieval Christian allegorical poem, "Pearl."
Many medieval poems were written in verse paragraphs, even where regular rhymes and rhythms were used.
Its basis is a medieval Irish poem about the onset of winter, a metaphor for death.
The Danteum, a modern design inspired by a medieval poem, is but one example.
The crown can only be dated back to the 13th century, when it is described in a medieval poem.
Bits and pieces of the old mass, or was it from a medieval poem?