This in-depth exploration of key manuscript sources reveals new information about medieval songs and sets them in their original contexts.

This collection focuses on a woman's point of view in love poetry, and juxtaposes poems by women and poems about women to raise questions about how femininity i

Is birdsong music? The most frequent answer to this question in the Middle Ages was resoundingly "no." In Sung Birds, Elizabeth Eva Leach traces postmedieval us

The first cultural history of early modern cryptography, this collection brings together scholars in history, literature, music, the arts, mathematics, and comp