Julia M. Craig-McFeely, English Lute Manuscripts and Scribes 1530-1630 (DPhil, University of Oxford, 1993) 1530-1630
An examination of the place of the lute in 16th- and 17th-century English Society through a study of the English Lute Manuscripts of the so-called ‘Golden Age’, including a comprehensive catalogue of the sources.
Downloadable from author’s website.