IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 748: The Belliphonic, I: Sounds of War
Tuesday 4 July 2023, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | DFG Projekt 'Der laute Krieg und die Laute des Krieges: Belliphonie im Mittelalter' |
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| Organiser: | Martin Clauss, Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Technische Universität Chemnitz |
| Moderator/Chairs: | Gesine Mierke, Institut für Germanistik, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg Pauline Pötzsch, Institut für Europäische Studien und Geschichtswissenschaften, Technische Universität Chemnitz |
| Paper 748-a | Loud, Louder, War: How to Create a Medieval Battle Soundcape (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - German, Military History |
| Paper 748-b | Fragor, Horror, Metus: Sonic Warfare in the Late Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Mentalities, Military History, Music |
| Paper 748-c | Listening to Medieval Warfare: About Methodical Problems of the Belliphonic (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Military History |
| Abstract | Anyone who wants to understand how wars were planned, waged, perceived, and portrayed must 'listen' to them: the noise of weapons, screams, speeches, music, and signal sounds. In short: the belliphonic - created and structured social spaces and narrations. Historical research has recently been increasingly concerned with the sound spheres of the Middle Ages. So far, however, the war has remained almost entirely unnoticed. The section is one in a series of two. Both address the question what can be learned about the belliphonic by looking at a variety of sources. Section one focuses on historiographical accounts and asks what functions did sounds fulfil in warfare and war narration? How were they perceived and interpreted? Thus the session brings new aspects to the fields of military and sound history. |