Musical Lives: Towards an Historical Anthropology of French Song, 1100-1300, or MUSLIVE, is a five-year research project (2023-2028) investigating the lives and networks of medieval French song-makers and their music. It will use archival and musical evidence to follow songs, song-makers, their families and connections throughout Europe and the Mediterranean. In this way, MUSLIVE will reorientate existing western Europe-focused histories of song and retell the social history of the Middle Ages through the prism of the essential role played by music and singing.
MUSLIVE is hosted at the Department of Music, King’s College London. It is funded by the UKRI under its Horizon Europe Guarantee. This provided funding to projects successfully evaluated by the European Research Council in the period between the UK leaving the European Union and re-joining the Horizon programme.