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The Life of Bells in the Middle Ages - Professor Christopher Page

4,167 views · Published 23 September 2015 · 2:47 · Indexed 14 November 2026

Channel: Gresham College · 2015 · Education

Professor Page explains how church bells in the middle ages were seen almost as living members of the society will responsibilities of their own:
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/music-imagination-and-experience-in-the-medieval-world

It’s hard for modern audiences to understand the importance fo church bells in the medieval world. The peals of the bells were a familiar sound track to daily life, a demarcation of territory and a symbol of Christian society. They were often seen as a part of the community, given names and even expected to warn the village of dangers. Professor Page illustrates the role bells in with this description of how they might be punished for failing in their duty.

Christopher Page is Professor of Medieval Music and Literature, a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. He is an internationally renowned performer and writer, as well as being an experienced presenter through BBC Radio. He holds the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association awarded for outstanding services to musicology..

http://www.gresham.ac.uk/professors-and-speakers/professor-christopher-page

A series of lectures concerned with the place of musical sound and art in medieval imagination and experience: its relation to patterns of fear, delight and awe. The setting for the lectures will be one of the few medieval churches of London to survive the Great Fire of 1666: St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, Holborn.

http://www.gresham.ac.uk/music-imagination-and-experience-in-the-medieval-world

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The Life of Bells in the Middle Ages - Professor Christopher Page

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