About the Author

Veronica Votterle studied Musicology and German Literature in Augsburg and Munich. Between 2004 and 2008 she completed a M.A. degree in Musicology with a thesis about the melodies of the German Lied in the 14th century. Between 2008 and 2011 she worked at the Center for Renaissance and Medieval Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich on her doctoral thesis about the reception and imagination of arabic musical instruments in medieval literature.