The outputs produced by the MALMECC team range across different media. A selection of pieces that relate to the researchers' work on the project is presented below.
Essay collections and monographs
2026
KÜGLE, KARL (ed.), The Networked Court: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Late Medieval European Court Cultures, Proceedings of the British Academy 287 (London: The British Academy, 2026). xii + 283 pp. https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781805969280
2024
KÜGLE, KARL, INGRID CIULISOVÁ, and VÁCLAV ŽŮREK (eds), Luxembourg Court Cultures in the Long Fourteenth Century: Performing Empire, Celebrating Kingship (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2024). xvii + 508 pp. https://boydellandbrewer.com/book/luxembourg-court-cultures-in-the-long-fourteenth-century-pb/?v=7885444af42e
Articles and Chapters
2026
KÜGLE, KARL - 'Introduction. The Late Medieval Court as Transdisciplinary Network: Methodological Considerations and Opportunities', in Karl Kügle (ed.), The Networked Court: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Late Medieval European Court Cultures, 1-20 https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781805969280
KÜGLE, KARL - 'Conclusion. Looking Ahead: Networks and Disciplinary Knowledge', in Karl Kügle (ed.), The Networked Court: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Late Medieval European Court Cultures, 276-279 https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781805969280
MASSON, CHRISTOPHE - 'Episcopal Courts in the 14th Century: Following, Adapting,
or Creating a Model?', in Karl Kügle (ed.), The Networked Court: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Late Medieval European Court Cultures, 23-50 https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781805969280
MASSON, CHRISTOPHE - 'Un Bourguignon en Avignon: Le cardinal Guillaume de Vergy et sa cour (1391-1407)', in Alain Marchandisse and Christophe Masson (eds), Sans science nul royaume ne puet longuement durer: Études bourguignonnes offertes à Bertrand Schnerb, Bibliothèque du Moyen Âge 30 (Louvain-la-Neuve: De Boeck Supérieur), 495-509
MURRAY, DAVID - 'The One and the Many: Imagining Courtly Communities in the
Polyphonic Songs of the "Mönch von Salzburg"', in Karl Kügle (ed.), The Networked Court: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Late Medieval European Court Cultures, 159-188 https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781805969280
SLATER, LAURA - 'Sight, Sound, and Maidenhood in Oxford, Bodleian Library,
MS Liturgical 104: Networked Manuscripts and Networks of Manuscripts', in Karl Kügle (ed.), The Networked Court: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Late Medieval European Court Cultures, 89-127 https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781805969280
SMILANSKY, URI - 'Texts on the Move: Book Presentation as Performative Space', in Karl Kügle (ed.), The Networked Court: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Late Medieval European Court Cultures, 189-224 https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781805969280
2025
SLATER, LAURA - 'Seeing the Music in the Psalter of Queen Philippa', Gesta 64 (1): 71-102
2024
KÜGLE, KARL - 'The Absent Present: Luxembourg Courts, Their Sonic Cultures, and Music Histor(iograph)y', in Karl Kügle, Ingrid Ciulisová, and Václav Žůrek (eds), Luxembourg Court Cultures in the Long Fourteenth Century: Performing Empire, Celebrating Kingship (Woodbridge: Boydell Press), 429-465 https://boydellandbrewer.com/book/luxembourg-court-cultures-in-the-long-fourteenth-century-pb/?v=7885444af42e
KÜGLE, KARL, INGRID CIULISOVÁ and VÁCLAV ŽŮREK - 'Introduction. The "Long Luxembourg Century" (1308-1437): Courtly Networks, Cultural Politics, Dynastic Legacy', in Karl Kügle, Ingrid Ciulisová, and Václav Žůrek (eds), Luxembourg Court Cultures in the Long Fourteenth Century: Performing Empire, Celebrating Kingship (Woodbridge: Boydell Press), 1-17 https://boydellandbrewer.com/book/luxembourg-court-cultures-in-the-long-fourteenth-century-pb/?v=7885444af42e
SMILANSKY, URI - 'The "Luxembourgness" of Things: Machaut C, Glazier 52 and Dynastic Presence in Early Fourteenth Century France', in Karl Kügle, Ingrid Ciulisová, and Václav Žůrek (eds), Luxembourg Court Cultures in the Long Fourteenth Century: Performing Empire, Celebrating Kingship (Woodbridge: Boydell Press), 21-56 https://boydellandbrewer.com/book/luxembourg-court-cultures-in-the-long-fourteenth-century-pb/?v=7885444af42e
2023
KÜGLE, KARL - 'Clio's Stepchildren: Anne of Cyprus, Louis of Savoy, and the Politics of Historiography', European History Quarterly 53, 459-481 https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914231181305
KÜGLE, KARL - 'Musica - sonus - vox - cantus: Klangvorstellungen des Mittelalters, mittelalterliches Hören und der "sonic turn"', in Klangräume des Mittelalters, eds Nikolas Jaspert and Harald Müller. Vorträge und Forschungen, herausgegeben vom Konstanzer Arbeitskreis für mittelalterliche Geschichte. Bd. 94 (Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke Verlag), 29-52 https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/vuf/issue/view/6804
MURRAY, DAVID - 'Controlling Voices in Fourteenth-Century Salzburg: Singing and Identity in the "Mönch von Salzburg" Songs,' in Music and Letters 104 (2023): 177-196 https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcac062
2022
CATALUNYA, DAVID - 'Benedicamus Domino: Delight in Singing Praise to God at Las Huelgas of Burgos', in Early Music 50 (2022): 451-464 https://doi.org/10.1093/em/caac065
CATALUNYA, DAVID - 'A Female-Voice Ceremonial from Medieval Castile', in Female-Voice Song in the Middle Ages, eds Anna Kathryn Grau and Lisa Colton (Leiden: Brill), 68-90 https://brill.com/view/title/57409
MASSON, CHRISTOPHE - 'Les cours cardinalices d'Avignon entre 1378 et 1403. Des alternatives au modèle pontifical?,' in Modèles, réseaux et échanges curiaux au Moyen Âge. LIIe Congrès de la SHMESP - XLIIIes rencontres du RMBLF (Bruxelles, 20-23 mai 2021) (Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne), 293-305 https://books.openedition.org/psorbonne/112797
MASSON, CHRISTOPHE - Review of Mary Hollingsworth, Miles Pattenden, Arnold Witte (eds): A Companion to the Early Modern Cardinal (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2020), in Revue d'Histoire Ecclésiastique 117/1-2, 377-381
MCDONALD, GRANTLEY - 'Maximilian's Chaplains and their Benefices: Memoria and Money,' in Maximilian I. (1459-1519) und Musik. Reale Präsenz vs. virtuelle Kommunikation, ed. Nicole Schwindt, TroJa Jahrbuch für Renaissancemusik 18 (2019): 171-186 https://doi.org/10.25371/troja.v20193316
SMILANSKY, URI - 'Singing from the Source: Performance Markings in Machaut Manuscript G', in Benjamin Albritton, Jared C. Hartt, Tamsyn Mahoney-Steel and Benjamin Albritton, (eds), Essays in Honour of Lawrence Earp (Turnhout: Brepols), 311-334 https://doi.org/10.1484/M.EM-EB.5.132709
2021
MCDONALD, GRANTLEY - 'Liturgical Foundations from the Court of Maximilian I and the Hope of Salvation', in Mattias Lundberg, Maria Schildt, and Jonas Lundblad (eds), Lutheran Music Culture: Ideals and Practices (Berlin: De Gruyter), 69-79 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110680959-006
SLATER, LAURA - 'Musical Wit and Courtly Connections at Cogges', in Julian Luxford (ed.), Tributes to Paul Binski. Medieval Gothic: Art, Architecture and Ideals (Turnhout: Brepols), 198-209 https://doi.org/10.1484/M.HMTRIB-EB.5.130048
SLATER, LAURA - 'Rumour and Reputation Management in Fourteenth-Century England: Isabella of France in Text and Image', in Journal of Medieval History 47(2), 257-292 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03044181.2021.1891449
SMILANSKY, URI (with Marc Lewon, co-author) - 'Competing Ontologies of Musical Improvisation: A Medieval Perspective', in The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Musical Improvisation, eds Marcello Ruta and Alessandro Bertinetto (New York: Routledge), 315-327 https://tandfbis.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781003179443_10.4324_9781003179443-26.pdf
SMILANSKY, URI - 'The Polyphonies of Function: Guillaume de Machaut and the Performance of Text and Music', in Polyphony and the Modern, ed. Jonathan Fruoco (New York: Routledge), 15-36 https://tandfbis.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781003129837_oachapter1.pdf
2020
CATALUNYA, DAVID - 'Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century in Aragon: Reassessing a Panorama of Fragmentary Sources', in Disiecta Membra Musicae: Studies in Musical Fragmentology, ed. Giovanni Varelli. Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 21 (Berlin: De Gruyter), 117-163 https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/591824
KÜGLE, KARL - 'The Aesthetics of Fragments: Reading Pastedowns in Context or, Late Medieval Bookbinders, Readers, and Their Choices', in Disiecta Membra Musicae: Studies in Musical Fragmentology, ed. Giovanni Varelli. Studies in Manuscript Cultures 21 (Berlin: De Gruyter), 205-237 https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/591824
MASSON, CHRISTOPHE - 'Les affaires napolitaines', in Michel Hébert and Jean-Michel Matz (eds), Jean Le Fèvre: Journal (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes), LXXI-LXXIX
MASSON, CHRISTOPHE - 'Une cour avignonnaise parmi d'autres? Chapelles et organisation curiale pontificales face à leurs homologues cardinalices à l'époque du Grand Schisme d'Occident', in Claudia D'Alberto (ed.), Imago Papae: Le pape en image du Moyen Âge à l'époque contemporaine (Rome: Campisano Editore), 141-149 https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/256211
MCDONALD, GRANTLEY - 'Isaac as a Member of the Court Chapel of Maximilian I', in Musiktheorie: Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft 35, 199-210
MURRAY, DAVID - '"Ju, ich jag": A Three-Part Song in the Mönch von Salzburg Corpus in Translingual Perspective', in Oxford German Studies, 49(1): 1-26 https://doi.org/10.1080/00787191.2020.1735212
MURRAY, DAVID - 'Ein "volles Lied": Übertragung und Klang am Beispiel der geistlichen Lieder des Mönchs von Salzburg', in Geistliche Liederdichter zwischen Volkssprache und Liturgie: Übertragungen, Bearbeitungen, Neuschöpfungen in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, eds Krass, Standke. Liturgie und Volkssprache, 5 (Berlin: De Gruyter), 63-89 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110666816
SMILANSKY, URI - 'Creating MS C: Author, Workshop, Court', Early Music History 39, 253-304 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261127920000042
2019
CATALUNYA, DAVID - 'Ars Subtilior in Organ Playing c.1380-1420: Another Glimpse into a Late Medieval Unwritten Performance Practice', in Kirchenmusikalisches Jahrbuch 103, 113-143
KÜGLE, KARL - Manuscript Ivrea, Biblioteca capitolare 115: Introductory Study and Facsimile Edition Ars nova: nuova serie, vol. 5 (Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana) xix and 70 pp. + 134 photographic colour plates https://www.lim.it/en/facsimiles/5674-ivrea-9788870969887.html#/1-tipo_prodotto-pdf_lim
MURRAY, DAVID - 'The Secular Songs of the Monk of Salzburg', in Musikleben des Spätmittelalters in der Region Österreich, eds. Strohm, Lodes https://musical-life.net/essays/secular-songs-monk-salzburg
MURRAY, DAVID - 'Die Übersetzungen des Mönchs von Salzburg als Lieder: Das Fallbeispiel der Mariensequenz Salve mater salvatoris', in Hymnus, Sequenz, Antiphon: Fallstudien zur volkssprachlichen Aneignung liturgischer Lieder im deutschen Mittelalter Eds. Krass, Ostermann (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter) 193-222 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110648799-008
2018
MASSON, CHRISTOPHE - 'La Iglesia fracturada: El gran Cisma de Occidente', in Desperta Ferro Antigua y Medieval nº48 July https://www.despertaferro-ediciones.com/revistas/numero/antigua-y-medieval-48-qadesh-egipto-contra-hititas/
SLATER, LAURA - 'Review of Renana Bartal: Gender, Piety, and Production in Fourteenth-Century English Apocalypse Manuscripts (London: Routledge, 2016)', in Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture 6(4): 260-271 https://digital.kenyon.edu/perejournal/vol6/iss4/9
2017
MASSON, CHRISTOPHE - 'Review of Jean-Yves Copy: La revendication bretonne du trône de France (1213-1358)', in www.sehepunkte.de December http://www.sehepunkte.de/2017/12/29328.html
MURRAY, DAVID - 'Bernard de Ventadour',in The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.01: Old French to the Middle Ages, 500-1400 Eds. Ailes, Unwin, Williams. November https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5487
SLATER, LAURA - 'Lessons in Leadership and Liturgy in the Winchcombe Psalter', in English Studies 98(1): 49-62, 02 January https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:94ec0f34-f542-4abd-9640-7f1b9ff319c1
2016
KÜGLE, KARL - 'Die Fragmente Oxford, All Souls 56 und die mensural notierte Mehrstimmigkeit in Köln um 1400. Ein Zwischenbericht', in Musik der mittelalterlichen Metropole: Räume, Identitäten und Kontexte der Musik in Köln und Mainz, ca. 900-1400 Ed. Kolb (Kassel: Merseburger) 301-324 http://www.merseburger.de/index.php?id=10075&
MURRAY, DAVID - 'The Clerical Reception of Bernart de Ventadorn's 'Can vei la lauzeta mover' (PC 70, 34)', Medium Aevum 85: 259-277, 15 December https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:71a3c6e8-2fa6-4438-b4f9-fb9d06c05924
Videos
Research
Watch David Catalunya's 2021 project video with spectacular drone footage here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfFWYZ9HF5o
Fun presentations of project themes
Medieval Marriage problems - Laura Slater
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhSwibfboIE&feature=emb_logo
Papal challenges - Christophe Masson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWUkYOi-hkw&feature=emb_logo
Music and the Monk of Salzburg - David Murray
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FArz3MZd7DY&feature=emb_logo
Medieval Morissey - Karl Kügle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ8pX3R2R7Y&feature=emb_logo