Matthew Milner
I'm working on several projects as a late medieval / early modernist and digital historian. My main focus is on building representations of social and cultural networks to help trace the circulation of ideas on the senses and empiricism in Tudor England. This involves both digital humanities work on modeling events and interactions, as much as continued engagement with the vast historiography of the English reformation, and the quickly developing field of sensory history.
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Divided into two sections, the book begins with an examination of pre-Reformation beliefs and practices, establishing intellectual views on the senses in fifteenth-century England, and situating them within their contemporary philosophical and cultural tensions. Having established the parameters for the role of sense before the Reformation, the second half of the book mirrors these concerns in the post-1520 world, looking at how, and to what degree, the relationship between religious practices and sensation changed as a result of the Reformation.
By taking this long-term, binary approach, the study is able to tackle fundamental questions regarding the role of the senses in late-medieval and early modern English Christianity. By looking at what English men and women thought about sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch, the stereotype that Protestantism was not sensual, and that Catholicism was overly sensualised is wholly undermined. Through this examination of how worship was transformed in its textual and liturgical forms, the book illustrates how English religion sought to reflect changing ideas surrounding the senses and their place in religious life. Worship had to be 'sensible', and following how reformers and their opponents built liturgy around experience of the sacred through the physical allows us to tease out the tensions and pressures which shaped religious reform. "
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There is no publicly-accessible recording of the concert. However, some of the choral works performed by OEM were recorded earlier as part of their Wanley Partbooks project. See https://soundcloud.com/one-equall-musick/sets/music-for-men-from-the-wanley-partbooks
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Divided into two sections, the book begins with an examination of pre-Reformation beliefs and practices, establishing intellectual views on the senses in fifteenth-century England, and situating them within their contemporary philosophical and cultural tensions. Having established the parameters for the role of sense before the Reformation, the second half of the book mirrors these concerns in the post-1520 world, looking at how, and to what degree, the relationship between religious practices and sensation changed as a result of the Reformation.
By taking this long-term, binary approach, the study is able to tackle fundamental questions regarding the role of the senses in late-medieval and early modern English Christianity. By looking at what English men and women thought about sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch, the stereotype that Protestantism was not sensual, and that Catholicism was overly sensualised is wholly undermined. Through this examination of how worship was transformed in its textual and liturgical forms, the book illustrates how English religion sought to reflect changing ideas surrounding the senses and their place in religious life. Worship had to be 'sensible', and following how reformers and their opponents built liturgy around experience of the sacred through the physical allows us to tease out the tensions and pressures which shaped religious reform. "
Please visit the link for download information and licensing.
There is no publicly-accessible recording of the concert. However, some of the choral works performed by OEM were recorded earlier as part of their Wanley Partbooks project. See https://soundcloud.com/one-equall-musick/sets/music-for-men-from-the-wanley-partbooks