MĂRCULESCU 2015b (7SDB2018)
Andreea
Mărculescu
Voice
and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe
Editors
New
York. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, pp. 139-152. (pdf.)
Abstract
During
the Easter ceremony of the year 1491, a strange event took place in a reformed
Augustinian convent situated near the small town of Cambrai in northern France.
Several of the nuns residing in the convent, recounts the Burgundian chronicler
Jean Molinet (1435–1507), displayed extremely bizarre behavior. They rolled
their eyes, jumped in the air, and spoke in tongues; one sang a song in a
hideous voice. Together with the ecclesiastical authorities called upon to
interpret the case, Molinet considers that such behavior is the direct result
of the fact that the women were possessed by devils.
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