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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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Review of Helen Deeming’s edition of Songs in British Sources (with link to full text)

My review of Helen Deeming’s edition of Songs in British Sources (Musica Britannica, vol. 95), has just become available via the advance access section of Early Music.

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Sources for Cantigas

Links to online images of manuscripts of containing the medieval Galego-Portuguese song repertory.

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Thibaut’s Romance of the Pear

Links to the sources of Thibaut’s Roman de la poire.

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Review of Jennifer Saltzstein’s new book on refrains (with link to full text)

My review of Jennifer Saltzstein’s stimulating new book on thirteenth-century refrains has just appeared in the Cambridge University Press journal, Plainsong and Medieval Music.

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Richard de Fournival’s Bestiary of Love

Links to some of the manuscript sources for Richard de Fournival’s Bestiaire d’amours.

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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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Refrains in odd places

The Bestiaire d’amours citing a motet.

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Renart le Nouvel

Beast satire with songs.

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The singer is an ass

The newly recognized relevance to musicology of a short article from 1905 about words for driving beasts of burden.