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nemfrog

Three women ring bells in concert with the setting sun. Poems by Robert Browning. 1904. Byam Shaw, illustrator.

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thefugitivesaint

George J. Stodart (fl.1880-1893), ‘St. Margaret & the Dragon’, “The Art Journal”, 1881 Source

greencheekconure27

St. Lambertuskapel in Heverlee

spatula

(via Medieval Mile Museum in restored church by McCullough Mulvin Architects)

galina

This church window was restored as part of the new library which opened about a year ago near the village I grew up in. Spent a few minutes in the quiet here, just watching the sun

thepictorialist

Geneva, Switzerland.

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Campanology

Noun

[kam-puh-nol-uh-jee]

1. the principles or art of making bells, bell ringing, etc.

Origin: The Late Latin noun campāna (plural campānae) meant “bell,” so called because bells were made in Campania (which means “wide, level plain”), whose chief city has always been Naples. About 400 A.D. St. Paulinus of Nola (c354–c431), bishop of Nola, commissioned a large bell to be cast to summon Christians to worship. The Italian word for bell is campana, which has the derivatives campanile, the distinctive bell tower of an Italian church (as opposed to a steeple) and campanilismo, local rivalry, usually petty, sometimes fierce. The word entered English in the 1820s in the sense “the art of bell ringing.”

“Mary threw herself into the study of campanology, dragging along with her five other villagers, to the nearby village of Ancombe for lessons in bell ringing.” - M. C. Beaton, Agatha Raisin: Hell’s Bells, 2013