Recasting Histories of Sound and Matter: Erasmus and the Bells of Averbode

Erasmus’s epigrams "On six restored bells" (ca. 1501) draw attention to their material origins in bells remade for the Premonstratensian Abbey of Averbode following a calamitous fire. In doing so, they allow an exploration of the tensions between holy matter speaking with present, embodied...

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Main Author: Champion, Matthew S. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc. 2023
In: The sixteenth century journal
Year: 2023, Volume: 54, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 73-98
IxTheo Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
CE Christian art
KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance
KBD Benelux countries
KCA Monasticism; religious orders
Further subjects:B Abbeys
B BELLS
B ERASMUS, Desiderius, d. 1536
B PREMONSTRATENSIAN monasteries
B CHURCH bells
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