Christians were debating the aesthetics and morality of music more than a millennium and a half before the Satanic panic. But their debates weren't solely or even mostly about the putatively demonic properties of music. They were also anchored in the conviction that music had serious psychological and behavioral ramifications, and this talk explores how music theorists, monks, and other moralists drew the line between good and bad music accordingly.

Jamie Kreiner is Professor of History at the University of Georgia. She's the author of The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom, Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West, and The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction. She received her Ph.D. in History from Princeton in 2011.

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