Metrical categories have long been recognised as important ingredients of musico-textual relationships in medieval song, yet the issue of their semantic potential remains largely unanswer...

Whether by accident or for some deeper reason, the rise of mendicant monasticism went hand in hand with the rise of two major polyphonic genres: the conductus and the motet.

Guillaume de Machaut and his manuscripts have been the subject of much recent scholarship, with each investigation yielding new and often surprising information.

2016 marked the 800th anniversary of the foundation of the Dominican Order of Preachers, prompting a number of scholars to re-examine the Order’s origins.