This is the fifth and last in a series of short posts about the Sound Faith: Religion and the Acoustic World 1400-1800 conference at the University of York from 12-14 June 2024. The final panel was ‘The Soundscape of the English Parish Church and Beyond’, chaired by Ros Oates. It opened with a very engaging online paper…

This is the fourth in a series of short posts about the Sound Faith: Religion and the Acoustic World 1400-1800 conference at the University of York from 12-14 June 2024. Day 2 started with Panel 5: The Sound of Manuscript and Print in which I was speaking with Katherine Butler (Northumbria University) and Alexander Fisher (University…

This is the third in a series of short posts about the Sound Faith: Religion and the Acoustic World 1400-1800 conference at the University of York from 12-14 June 2024. There was then a tea, coffee & cake break before the second keynote: Felipe Ledesma-Nuñez (Harvard)’s ‘Coya Huarmi: Reconstruction of a Song, a Vessel, and…

This is the second in a series of short posts about the Sound Faith: Religion and the Acoustic World 1400-1800 conference at the University of York from 12-14 June 2024. On the official first day, I was up early editing blog posts (I did say I was treating the trip in part as a writing…

This is the first in a series of short posts about the Sound Faith: Religion and the Acoustic World 1400-1800 conference at the University of York from 12-14 June 2024. I arrived in York on Thursday at about 11 in the morning, having decided to treat the trip as a sort of writing retreat. I…