‘Ecclesial life was so rich with sound in part because singing was intrinsic to learning to read: young children in monasteries, nunneries and cathedral schools were taught literacy through memorising the psalms.’
Ardis Butterfield on medieval psalters.
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‘A psalm consoles the sad, restrains the joyful, tempers the angry, refreshes the poor and chides the rich man to know...
