Background
Having obtained a Bachelor of Music in 2013 from the Université de Bourgogne in Dijon, Manon Louviot commenced a Research Master programme at the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance in Tours, spending one year as an Erasmus student at the Universität Regensburg. Her master’s thesis centred on a late fourteenth-century fragment of polyphonic music preserved in Douai. Between 2016 and 2019, Manon worked at Utrecht University on her doctoral dissertation within the international HERA research project “Sound Memories”, under the supervision of Karl Kügle and Ulrike Hascher-Burger. She taught medieval and renaissance music history during the 2020 spring semester at the Conservatoire de Musique et de Danse in Paris, after which she held a postdoctoral position at KU Leuven in David Burn's CELSA project.
She is currently a post-doctoral researcher in Catherine Bradley's ERC project “Benedicamus Domino”.
Publications
Monographs
‘Controlling space, disciplining voice. The Congregation of Windesheim and fifteenth century monastic reform in Northern Germany and the Low Countries’, PhD. diss., Utrecht University, 2019. Open Access
Peer-reviewed articles and book chapters
‘Benedicamus Domino as an expression of joy in Christmas songs of the Devotio moderna,’ Early Music, 2022. Open Access
‘Uncovering the Douai fragment: Composing polyphony and encoding a composer in the late fourteenth-century,’ Early Music History, 2021, vol. 40, pp. 85–166. Open Access
‘“Elle meuglait comme une génisse.” Fonctions de la vocalité chantée dans le monastère de Diepenveen au XVe siècle.’ In La voix au Moyen Âge: Le Congrès de la SHMESP. Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2020, pp. 283–95. Open Access
‘Flexible uniformity or stability over the years? The liturgy of monastic houses affiliated with the Windesheim Congregation.’ In Sounding the Past: Music as History and Memory, edited by Karl Kügle, Turnhout: Brepols, 2020, pp. 215-32. Open Access
Book reviews
Review of Gregorio Bevilacqua and Thomas B. Payne eds, Ars Antiqua. Music and Culture in Europe c. 1150–1330 (2021), Le Moyen Âge, 2022, vol. 128, no. 3–4, pp. 837–839.
Review of Antonio Calvia et al. eds, The End of the Ars Nova in Italy (2020), Muzyka, 2021, vol. 3, pp. 197–201.
Awards
Best poster prize, HERA Early Career Researcher Event, Smolenice, 23-26 September 2018. ‘Be a reformer of the 15th century!’ www.soundme.eu/2018/HERA-best-poster-prize