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This is known as validation: the act of showing someone that you understand their experience and accept it as valid

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Manu Pillai is fast becoming one of India's most accomplished and impressively wide-ranging historians' William Dalrymple When European missionaries arrived in India in the sixteenth century

Speaking Sculptures in Late Medieval Europe Easter26 Rich in the history ofSpeaking Sculptures in Late Medieval Europe explores medieval sculptors motif of the open mouth. The speech mode, as it is called in this book, is more than an illusionistic device or an affective ploy to foster the emotional response of the viewer. Here it is shown to have a deeper significance as an agent of engagement and persuasion. Through the evocation of sound, speaking sculptures fostered imaginatively an aural relationship between the