The 'intolerable jangle' : change-ringing as system, sound, and practice in seventeenth-century England
In seventeenth-century England church bells started to make a new, and extraordinary, sound. Change-ringing caused bells to be rung according to complicated series of mathematical permutations from pages full of number. It had no liturgical function but was practised as a highly-organised leisure ac...
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Birkbeck (University of London)
2013
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