Yolanda Plumley is Professor of Historical Musicology at the University of Exeter. She has published widely on late medieval music and its cultural context and is author of The Grammar of Fourteenth-Century Melody (New York and London, 1996) and (with Anne Stone) of Codex Chantilly, Bibliothèque du Château de Chantilly, MS 564 (Turnhout, 2008), and co-editor of three volumes of essays on late medieval and Renaissance culture.