{"id":2943,"date":"2023-10-20T15:17:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/?p=2943"},"modified":"2024-08-06T06:19:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T06:19:00","slug":"a-musical-medieval-thank-you-on-yolanda-plumleys-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/2023\/10\/20\/a-musical-medieval-thank-you-on-yolanda-plumleys-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"A musical, medieval thank-you: on Yolanda Plumley&#8217;s retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It\u2019s the third week of term here in Exeter, and there\u2019s a palpable sense in the air of things \u2018settling down\u2019 for the autumn. The first lectures of term have been delivered, the traditional Centre for Medieval Studies \u2018welcome seminar\u2019 has taken place, and at all levels of study and research, the cogs of Exeter\u2019s medievalist machine are turning once again.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2023\/10\/Image-C-NIAS-edited-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2953\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2023\/10\/Image-C-NIAS-edited-scaled.jpeg 1920w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2023\/10\/Image-C-NIAS-edited-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2023\/10\/Image-C-NIAS-edited-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2023\/10\/Image-C-NIAS-edited-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2023\/10\/Image-C-NIAS-edited-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><sup>Photo (C) Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study.<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>There is one notable absence, though, and it\u2019s one that while well-deserved, will be no less keenly felt across the Centre. Yolanda Plumley, one of the longest-standing members of the Centre and stalwart of the Exeter medievalist scene, took much-merited retirement at the end of the summer, after several decades of dedicated service to the University and its students. While Yolanda will still be present around the university, and undertaking her own research, it seems appropriate, on the occasion of her retirement, to take a moment to congratulate and thank her for her outstanding work.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent years, Yolanda has been best-known in Exeter for her work in our very own&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.exeter.ac.uk\/research\/centres\/medieval\/\">Centre for Medieval Studies<\/a>, which she directed from 2005. <a href=\"https:\/\/history.exeter.ac.uk\/staff\/hamilton\/\">Sarah Hamilton<\/a>, Professor of Medieval History and long-time friend of Yolanda\u2019s, notes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>[Yolanda was] personally responsible for obtaining substantial funding for its seminar programme at a crucial point in its early years, allowing us to set up the diet of internal and external speakers which had continued ever since and made it one of the most successful and truly interdisciplinary centres in HASS.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Yolanda\u2019s connection to Exeter, however, stretches far further back, beginning in 1981 when she arrived to study for a degree in Music. She completed her PhD (also from Exeter) in 1991, which was published shortly afterwards as&nbsp;<em>The Grammar of Fourteenth-Century Melody: Tonal Organization and Compositional Process in the Chansons of Guillaume de Machaut and the Ars Subtilior<\/em>. During several subsequent years spent in France, Yolanda was involved in a remarkable range of activities that typify her energy and enthusiasm: while completing her PhD, she worked as an interpreter and taught piano, both of which also presaged her later work across music and modern languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Returning to Exeter shortly afterwards, initially on a temporary lectureship, Yolanda also spent a number of years working at University College Cork before taking up the post of Director of Exeter\u2019s Centre for Medieval Studies. During her almost two decades in senior roles in medieval studies at Exeter, Yolanda brought to life a topic that might otherwise seem inaccessible and distant to undergraduates \u2014 the music and court culture of the later Middle Ages \u2014 and engaged students both with and without prior musical knowledge. As <a href=\"https:\/\/history.exeter.ac.uk\/staff\/rider\/\">Catherine Rider<\/a>, Associate Professor in Medieval History, puts it, she \u2018took them through it gently and showed them how to listen\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yolanda\u2019s appointment spanned Departments and encouraged collaboration in a way that the rest of the University is only now beginning to fully appreciate. <a href=\"https:\/\/modernlanguages.exeter.ac.uk\/staff\/hinton\/\">Thomas Hinton<\/a>, Associate Professor of French Language and Literature, is particularly appreciative of her contribution to Modern Languages:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u2018Yolanda was a supportive and friendly presence from the moment I arrived at the university as a wet-behind-the-ears lecturer in 2013. I had the great pleasure of getting to know her properly the following year, on a shared research trip to a workshop on troubadour lyric in Girona, and since then our regular chats about matters both medieval and institutional have been a welcome fixture.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2023\/10\/Grafted-Song.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2967\" width=\"252\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2023\/10\/Grafted-Song.jpg 674w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/medievalstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/2023\/10\/Grafted-Song-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>In recent years, Yolanda has also remained at the forefront of her discipline \u2014 historical musicology \u2014 through a string of successes in the research sphere. Her AHRC- and Leverhulme Trust-funded research has led to the publication of several groundbreaking volumes, among them&nbsp;<em>The Art of Grafted Song: Citation and&nbsp;Allusion in the Age&nbsp;of Machaut&nbsp;<\/em>and the co-edited&nbsp;<em>Citation, Intertextuality and Memory&nbsp;in the Middle Ages&nbsp;and Renaissance&nbsp;<\/em>(2011 and 2013). Several of Yolanda\u2019s projects incorporated a significant digital element, with searchable digital archives that will likely serve as cornerstones of research in the coming years, and further catalogues, inventories and editions in the offing. Her most recent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brepolsonline.net\/doi\/abs\/10.1484\/M.EM-EB.5.132710\">publication<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 which she modestly describes as a \u2018connect-the-dots\u2019 exercise \u2014 identifies further exciting loci of reception for the work of the the 14th-century poet and musician Guillaume de Machaut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One blog post alone, of course, cannot do justice to Yolanda\u2019s work, in Exeter and beyond. Ironically, Machaut himself expressed similar sentiments, albeit 600 years in advance, and in a different context: \u2018<em>Biaus amis, je t\u2019en conteroie \/ Jusqu\u2019a demain se je voloie\u2019<\/em>&nbsp;[\u2018Good friend, I could go on relating such things \/ Until the dawn if I wished\u2019]. Indeed we could, and certainly all those who have worked with Yolanda over the years \u2014 from PhD students such as Uri Smilansky and Tamsyn Mahoney-Steel to current colleagues, via the many undergraduates who explored medieval music with her \u2014 will wish her the very best going forward, and look forward to her continuing contributions to medieval studies at Exeter and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From all of your colleagues and friends at Exeter: <em>Cent mille fois vous merci&nbsp;!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A heartfelt thank-you to Yolanda Plumley from her friends and colleagues in the Centre for Medieval Studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1301,"featured_media":2979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[619],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the 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