Episode 3: Sacred Space and the Uncontrollable Body – Medieval Church Regulation of Music and Dance
A medieval churchyard could hold graves, parish gatherings, feast-day celebrations, conversations, courtship, song, games, and dancing on the same patch of consecrated earth. Modern cemeteries encourage us to imagine burial grounds as quiet spaces separated from ordinary social life. The medieval parish offered no such clean division. People lived around the church, worshipped there, buried…