# From the Lips of Bells: The Humanisation of Bells

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Christopher Page FBA
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Music
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/lips-bells-humanisation-bells)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Taken down from its tower and laid on the ground, the bell of a great church would seem an inhuman thing: massive, cold and thoroughly dead. But that is not how people in the Middle Ages spoke of bells, and (under their influence) it is not how we speak of them now. Music performed by Catherine King

## Lectures

1. [From the Lips of Bells: The Humanisation of Bells](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/lips-bells-humanisation-bells/9a4f9fa5a5b9) (YouTube)