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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Main Author: Hunt, Katherine Emily
Published: Birkbeck (University of London) 2013
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.580587