Non-instrumental. This favorite album of background sounds has several tracks that offer an aural reproduction of noises from medieval daily life.
(Partial track below. Allow a moment for player to load.)
In the Near Distance the Cathedral Stirs to the Sounds of Lamenting Monks:
Tres Riches Heures (March 1410)
Monasteries become one of the most important institutions in Europe and played a fundamental role in the evolving transformation of land and community structures in the West. The land-monastery relationship aided the development of small-town Christianity as it existed throughout Middle Ages. Monastic communities often patterned themselves after fortified, Antique Roman villas, functioning as socio-economic units.
Wealthy citizens often donated cultivated lands for monastic use, along with the laborers and dwellings attached to the land. A codependent relationship emerged between these agricultural communities and the monasteries whose lands they worked, further contributing to the centralization of small space and the familiar visual landscape of the Middle Ages.
- Ann Scott -
Non-instrumental. This favorite album of background sounds has several tracks that offer an aural reproduction of noises from medieval daily life. (Partial track below. Allow a moment for player to load.)
Opening a large wooden door, you walk into the palace cloisters where a barrel-maker and craftsmen attend to their work. A wagon of goods is unloaded:
