Principal Investigator
Giovanni Varelli is Associate Professor at the Department of Musicology of the University of Pavia (IT). Giovanni Varelli studied at the Universities of Pavia and London, and received his PhD from the University of Cambridge. Between 2016 and 2022 he was Prize Fellow at Magdalen College and Research Fellow at the Faculty of Music of the University of Oxford. Giovanni Varelli was Visiting Fellow at the Universities of Würzburg and Regensburg, and was recently a Fellow of the Harvard University Centre for Italian Renaissance, and an EU–Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Trento.
Co-Principal Investigator
Since 2007, Emma Hornby has been Professor of Music at the University of Bristol, where she teaches medieval music and directs the Schola Cantorum. She has led multiple externally-funded research projects on medieval chant and liturgy, especially on the Old Hispanic rite. Her collaborative publications engage with musical analysis, chant palaeography, music and theology, and devotional culture in the middle ages.
Research Fellows
Alessandra Ignesti obtained a PhD in musicology from McGill University (2022). She held post-doctoral positions at KU Leuven and the University of Oslo; she collaborates on Cantus Index and Cantus Database. With Remi Chiu (Johns Hopkins University), she is curating the complete edition of the Masses by Ippolito Baccusi (A-R Editions).
Evina Stein obtained a PhD in Medieval Studies from Utrecht University (2016). She held post-doctoral positions at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto and the Huygens Institute in Amsterdam. She has studied medieval annotation symbols, Isidore of Seville, Latin glosses, early medieval manuscript fragments, and assembly cues. She published a monograph on annotation symbols used in early medieval West, a database of early medieval manuscripts of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville, and a digital edition of glosses to this work.
Patrick Sebastian Marschner studied at the Technische Universität Dresden and obtained his PhD at the University of Vienna. He worked as a post-doc at the Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His research focuses mainly on medieval historiography, especially Carolingian as well as Christian-Iberian chronicles and annals, their textual relations and their manuscript transmission. Furthermore, he is interested in historical geography and cosmology as well as the history of thought, especially typological thinking in the Middle Ages.
Research Associates
Marcus Jones
Paul Rouse (Bristol)
Collaborators
Gionata Brusa (Würzburg)
Giovanni Cunego (Pavia)
Sara Vrdoljak (Pavia)
Former Members
Emily Wride