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At the Medieval Academy of America Annual Conference 2015

EEL opening plenaryI was honoured to be invited to give the opening Plenary lecture at the MAA annual meeting, this year held at the University of Notre Dame in the US.

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Leach en France, Leach en français

Texte et présentation Powerpoint sur le contrepoint chez Machaut.

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Zoltán Rihmer answers some of my questions about Machaut

More information on the heraldry of MS A.

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2013 in review

The 2013 annual report for this blog, as prepared by Word Press.

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Money speaks louder than knowledge in the thirteenth-century university

Worries that university learning is suffering because it’s not what you know but whether you can pay that counts go back to the medieval universities.

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Revisiting old work

Work on a chapter for an edited collection on jugement poetry involves some rehashing…and a brief rant about Sound Studies.

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2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats 2012 annual report for this blog.

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Blogging about talking about blogging

My talk on blogging and tweeting for academia.

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Guillaume de Machaut wins award from the Renaissance Society of America

My 2011 book on Machaut has just been awarded the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Prize for 2012 by the Renaissance Society of America.

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Music and death before 1650: (partial) conference review

One of the world’s oldest musical societies discusses the role of music in death.