A collection of descriptions and references to sounds drawn mainly from primary sources such as autobiographies, diaries and statutes, as well as novels written around the times they depict.
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Period referred to: Mid-14th century
Sound category: Religious > Parades and processions
Title of work: De gestis mirabilibus regis Edwardi Tertii
Type of publication: Chronicle
Author: Robert of Avesbury
Year of publication: 1349
Page/volume number: n/a
A procession of flagellants in the wake of the Black Death
They marched naked in a file one behind the other and whipped themselves with these scourges on their naked and bleeding bodies. Four of them would chant in their native tongue and another four would chant in response like a litany. Thrice they would all cast themselves on the ground in this sort of procession, stretching out their hands like the arms of a cross. The singing would go on [. . .] It is said that every night they performed the same penance.