Joseph W. MASON is a postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College Dublin, funded by the Irish Research Council. His research focuses on the vernacular songs of thirteenth-century France and the intersections of music and violence in the Middle Ages. Joseph has published articles in Medium Ævum, Music Analysis and Early Music. He has a co-authored chapter in the Bloomsbury Cultural History of Music and is the co-editor of a forthcoming collection of essays on the trouvère songbook Bern, MS 389.
