SAMPLE PUBLICATIONS

Performing Piety: Musical Culture in Medieval English Nunneries. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006.
-Honorable Mention in the 2008 Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship Best First Book.

Addressing questions about the musical life in English nunneries in the later Middle Ages, Yardley pieces together a mosaic of nunnery musical life, where even the smallest convents sang the monastic offices on a daily basis and many of the larger houses celebrated the late medieval liturgy in all of its complexity.

“Teaching Music in the Seminary,” Teaching Theology and Religion 6:3 (July 2003): 169-75.

“Babel or Pentecost: Music as (In)Hospitality in Worship,” Liturgical Ministry 11 (Fall 2002): 187-194.

“Music in the Body of Christ,” The Chorister (August 2000): 6-8.

“Choirs in the Methodist Episcopal Church: 1800-1860,” American Music 17:1 (Spring, 1999): 39-64.

“Bridgettine Spirituality and Musical Practices at Syon Abbey,” in James Hogg, ed., Studies in St. Birgitta and the Brigittine Order, vol. 2: 199-214 in Analecta Cartusiana 35:19 (Salzburg: Austria: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Universität Salzburg, 1993.) 199-214.

“The Marriage of Heaven and Earth: A Late Medieval Source of the `Consecratio Virginum,'" in Brian Seirup, ed., Festschrift for Ernest Sanders: Studies in Medieval Music (1991 by the Trustees of Columbia University) 305-324.

“`Full weel she soong the service dyvyne': The Cloistered Musician in the Middle Ages,” in Jane Bowers and Judith Tick, eds., Women Making Music: The Western Art Tradition, 1150-1950 (Urbana, Ill.: The University of Illinois Press, 1986) 15-38.