Johanna-Pauline Thone

I work as a postdoctoral researcher on the ERC Consolidator grant project BROKENSONG (2023–8), led by Prof. Karen Desmond, that examines polyphonic singing and written culture in late medieval Britain and Ireland.

I studied historical performance practice (harpsichord), classical philology, and musicology in Leipzig, Mainz, and Utrecht, and I received my PhD in Medieval Musicology from the University of Oslo in 2024 with a thesis entitled Papal Polyphony during the Great Western Schism (1378–1417): How Music Dedicated to Popes Absorbed and Reflected a Time of Crisis.

My research focuses on repertory transmission, manuscript studies, philology, and the cultural history of the late Middle Ages.