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Soundscape of Medieval Europe

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16520434
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field History of Europe and America
Research InstitutionThe University of Tokyo

Principal Investigator

IKEGAMI Shunichi  The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Professor (70159606)

Project Period (FY) 2004 – 2006
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2006)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥1,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000)
KeywordsSound / Rfill / Trumnet / Middle Ages
Research Abstract

In this study, we tried to illuminate the significance of sounds in Medieval Europe, especially those of bell and trumpet. As for original documents, we used municipal statutes, guild statutes, as well as documents concerning to confraternities and monasteries. In order to evaluate the historical meaning of these data, we situated them in the cultural and social milieu in which secular and ecclesiastical powers commit themselves.
We pointed out that medieval men and women observed the bells to have a legal status and therefore they played an important role in communal movements. And to punish rebellious cities, kings or dukes confiscated the bells. In contrast, rebellious people made use of bells to communicate each other and devised a special grammar of sounds effective only within themselves.
Among several sounds, there existed a certain hierarchy. For example, in late medieval cities on the top of it situated the Bancloche------the principal bell of a city------, which was aided by other small bells. Below them, for the use of less distant message, trumpets were used. Sometimes human cries gave a supplementary explanation to these sound messages.
Our study will play the part of a starting point to a comparative study on the soundscapes of Europe, Asia and Islamic Worlds.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2006 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2005 Annual Research Report
  • 2004 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (8 results)

All 2007 2006 2005 2004

All Journal Article (5 results) Book (3 results)

  • [Journal Article] Reigious Movements in the MiddleAges2007

    • Author(s)
      Ikegami, Shunichi
    • Journal Title

      University Press of Nagoya

      Pages: 745-745

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2006 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] オランダ絵画の秘密2007

    • Author(s)
      池上俊一
    • Journal Title

      UP(東京大学出版会) 412

      Pages: 35-40

    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] 真実は外部から2006

    • Author(s)
      池上俊一
    • Journal Title

      UP(東京大学出版会) 405

      Pages: 14-20

    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] ヒューマニズムの使命2006

    • Author(s)
      池上俊一
    • Journal Title

      創文 484

      Pages: 19-22

    • Related Report
      2005 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] フォーク誕生の秘密2004

    • Author(s)
      池上俊一
    • Journal Title

      中世ヨーロッパを生きる(東京大学出版会)

      Pages: 119-132

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] ヨーロッパ中世の宗教運動2007

    • Author(s)
      池上 俊一
    • Total Pages
      745
    • Publisher
      名古屋大学出版会
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2006 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Book] ヨーロッパ中世の宗教運動2007

    • Author(s)
      池上俊一
    • Total Pages
      745
    • Publisher
      名古屋大学出版会
    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] 西洋中世学入門2005

    • Author(s)
      池上俊一(高山博と共編著)
    • Total Pages
      398
    • Publisher
      東京大学出版会
    • Related Report
      2005 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2004-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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