The Senses in Places and Spaces of Devotion, c. 1600-1800
Third and last workshop of the project Places and Spaces of Devotion c. 1600-1800 /
A partnership between IMEMS (Durham University) and
Britaix 17-18 (LERMA, AMU),
Friday 16 May 2025
Faculté ALLSH, 29 avenue Robert Schuman, 13621 Aix-en-Provence
Bâtiment Multimedia, Salle de colloque 1
9.00 – 9.15: Welcome, Prof. S. Taylor (IMEMS, Durham University) and Dr L. Lux-Sterritt (LERMA, AMU)
9.15 – 11.00 The soundscapes of early modern devotional places
– Prof. Andrew Spicer (Oxford Brookes University, UK), ‘Reformed preaching, acoustics and hearing in Scottish churches’
– Prof. Pierre Dubois (Tours, France), ‘ “The Majestic Sweetness” of the Georgian Organ: the Conflict between Sensorial Seduction and Solemn Devotion in Eighteenth-Century Church Music’.
– Dr Daniel Johnson (Independent scholar, UK), ‘The early tunes of Isaac Watts’ hymnody’
11.15 – 12.30 Materiality and the senses in Catholic places and spaces of devotion
– Mary Brooks (Durham University, UK), ‘The visual effects of early modern Catholic vestments’
– Claire Schiano-Locurcio (AMU, France), ‘The English Poor Clares’ Spirituality: A sensorial poverty?’
14.30 – 16.45 Sensing the sacred experience of worship
– Lily Chadwick (Durham University, UK), ‘Silence in Quaker worship’
– Anne Page (AMU, France), ‘Visual and aural disturbances of Nonconformist worship: defining acceptability’
– John Craig (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada), ‘Choirs, Congregations and Ceremonial: the changing soundscapes of worship in English parish churches, 1559-1642’