Visible and Invisible Impairments in Images of Medieval Musicians

Karen M. Cook is associate professor of music history at The Hartt School at the University of Hartford. Her primary research is on late medieval music theory and notation, with her current work focusing on lesser-known or fragmentary treatises. She also maintains strong secondary interests in medievalism and in ludomusicology, with several publications focusing on the creative repurposing or reimagining of medieval music in video game soundtracks. Recent work appears in Studies in Medievalism XXVII: Authenticity, Medievalism, Music; The Oxford Handbook of Medievalism in Music; Musica Disciplina; Plainsong & Medieval Music; and Oxford Bibliographies in Music. She was a recipient of the inaugural ACLS Professional Development Grant, which she used toward her work on her forthcoming monograph on the development of rhythmic notation in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries.