
The Sensory Monastery
Researcher: Sheila Bonde
The Sensory Monastery is a digital book project sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Digital Scholarship Initiative at Brown, and partially funded by a recent Salomon award. The project focuses on the abbey of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes, (France), and particularly on aspects of its daily life and sensory experience across time, including the monastic soundscape and bells, smell and on the tactile aspects of monastic life; and the changing architectural frame for liturgy.