The Conference Venue, the Groeninge Museum (left), right around the Church of Our Lady.

Papers were held in the Vriendenzaal of the Groeningemuseum:
here is Frank Dobbins enlightening us about French chanson sources of the the 1510s and after.

Lunch with David Fallows and Thomas Schmidt-Beste.

Mussels have been a Bruges staple since the Middle Ages: some of the oldest
Middle-Dutch songs and motets mention them. I was not personally tempted,
and was content to watch them tackle the dish.

End of the first day: Agnieszka Leszczynska’s paper on the Königsberg manuscript,
which was twice interrupted by an announcement (in four languages) to the
effect that the museum was about to close.

Medieval and Renaissance musicologists let loose on the streets of Bruges after a day of confinement:
that can’t be good.

Agnieszka Leszczynska and Véronique Roelvink.

Leofranc trying to decide which of several dozen Belgian beers to choose first.

Hmmm, Leofranc’s beer has STILL not arrived.
Thomas Schmidt-Beste, Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Jane Roper, Bonnie Blackburn,
Honey Meconi, Julie Cumming, Sarah Long.

My hotel was just around the corner from St Saviour’s, one of my favorite Medieval Flemish churches.
(The weather was so hot, and the sun so bright, that I’ve had to photoshop some of these images
so as to make them come out a bit better.)

Upon a visit to the Episcopal Archives in Bruges (for the first time in almost twenty years),
I was pleased to learn that first volume of the chapter acts of St Saviour’s,
which record the death of Antoine Busnoys in 1492, have recently resurfaced again,
having been presumed lost for more than a century. Here is the relevant entry on folio 108v:

“Item, eodem die concluserunt domini quod per obitum cantoris, domini Anthonij Busnois,
dominus Walterus susciperet onus regendi cantoriam donec prouideretur ad vtilitatem ipsius ecclesie de habili viro.”

Lunch after David Fallows’ keynote address, on Day Two.

David’s reward is a Flemish traditional fish stew known as waterzooi.
Zooi, in Dutch, is the word for mess, about three times over—like, say, a room
with half-eaten pizzas, empty beercans, full ashtrays, and dirty underwear strewn about.
That’s a zooi, also sometimes known as klerezooi. David is about to enjoy the culinary equivalent.

Not sure why I took this picture.

Bonnie Blackburn summed it all up as only she can.