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In the Orality/Aurality of the Book | 185www.jrfm.eu 2021, 7/1, 173–190 Fig. 5: A page with the Beatitudes in Old Slavonic and European notation done by Thomas Francis Nicholas Donald. (Photo of the author) jects such as the books and the lectern symbolise the significance of language in the constitution of religious place, as material expressions of its aurality. In exploring how religious buildings contribute to soundscapes, architec- tural scholarship has largely focused on the acoustic qualities of the build- ing itself, which may have religious symbolism. Thus, in Sound and Space in Renaissance Venice, Deborah Howard and Laura Moretti’s examination of the