Dr Naomi Barker - Open University UK

Music, Medicine and Religion at the Hospital of Santo Spirito Rome 1600-1650


The Music, Medicine and History Network invites you to join us for our next Wednesday seminar.



This will take place on March 13th on Zoom (3-4pm UK time) and is open to all.

Further details and Zoom links can be found on our website: https://musicmedicinehistory.org/



Abstract

In 1645 John Evelyn visited the Hospital of Santo Spirito in Sassia in Rome noting in his diary that the ‘Organs are very fine, & frequently play’d on to recreate the people in Paine’. Evelyn’s observation is supported by at least three other documents from the first half of the seventeenth century, all of which suggest the existence of some kind of music therapy in action. However, none of these accounts identifies what was played, why it was played and how the music may have been integrated into the care regime of the hospital. This presentation will offer some answers to these questions, exploring how music may have been understood as a cure for body and soul.


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Dr Hannah Scott
NUAcT Fellow in French Cultural History
Newcastle University

Chair of the Music, Medicine and History Network @MusicMedHistory

Latest publications:
-- Illingworth and Scott, 'Hope Labour, Precarious Research, and the Future of French Studies', Nottingham French Studies, 62:3 (2023), 233-50 https://doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2023.0386

-- Singing the English: Britain in the French Musical Lowbrow, 1870-1904 (London and New York: Routledge, 2022)  https://www.routledge.com/Singing-the-English-Britain-in-the-French-Musical-Low-Brow-18701904/Scott/p/book/9780367416126

-- ‘The Singing Linguist: Popular Songs on Fin-de-siècle Language Learning’, Contemporary French Civilization, 46:4 (2021), 373–93







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