Andreas JANKE studied Musicology and Italian literature at the Universities of Hamburg (Germany) and Pavia (Italy). He completed his PhD with a thesis on previously unknown Florentine secular compositions from the first decades of the 15th century, which needed to be deciphered from a palimpsest manuscript. Currently, he is a principal investigator at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures at the University of Hamburg. His research interests include secular and sacred music of the Middle Ages, manuscripts of polyphony, material analysis, and palimpsest research.
