On Latin and Vernacular Monophonic Song. The essays gathered here represent the principal themes and issues that have occupied scholars of late medieval monophonic songs over the last half century their place in history and society the role of women as composers and performers poetic and musical structures, styles and genres relationships between poems and melodies written and oral transmission and performance practices. Studying how each of these themes is played out across repertoires, cultures, decades and locations offers a rich and variegated panorama of the practice of song in late medieval Europe.