The Aural Experience of the Hagia Sophia with AAR Book Award Winner Bissera Pentcheva

Bissera V. Pentcheva, winner of AAR’s 2018 Award for Excellence in Historical Studies for her book Hagia Sophia: Sound, Space, and Spirit in Byzantium, talks about how digital technology, as applied to the ancient and medieval aural experience of the Hagia Sophia, makes it possible for historians to see, feel, and hear primary textual and liturgical sources in new ways.