A pdf of a thesis submitted at the University of Birmingham in 2010 - includes interesting material on the lute.
(found by chance while looking for John Taverner's Nam qui corde) http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/1028/1/Sequera10PhD1.pdf Enjoy M. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
