Thomas Devaney Lecture: ??A noise that seems as if it will shake the world apart?: Auditory Perception and Emotional Experience in Early Modern Spain?

Day Wednesday, April 19
Time 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Where Private Location (sign in to display)

Pilgrimages could be noisy affairs. Late medieval and early modern descriptions of such events in Spain nearly always emphasized the sounds of the crowd and of the penitents seeking miracles. They sighed and groaned; they cried; they prayed. And they sang; they played instruments. As one eyewitness account notes, the cacophony included ?minstrels,


Add to Calendar 04/19/2023 3:00 PM 04/19/2023 4:00 PM America/New_York Thomas Devaney Lecture: ??A noise that seems as if it will shake the world apart?: Auditory Perception and Emotional Experience in Early Modern Spain? Pilgrimages could be noisy affairs. Late medieval and early modern descriptions of such events in Spain nearly always emphasized the sounds of the crowd and of the penitents seeking miracles. They sighed and groaned; they cried; they prayed. And they sang; they played instruments. As one eyewitness account notes, the cacophony included ?minstrels, Private Location (sign in to display)