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2006 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

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
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.

  • Research Products

    (2 results)

All 2007

All Journal Article (1 results) Book (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Reigious Movements in the MiddleAges2007

    • Author(s)
      Ikegami, Shunichi
    • Journal Title

      University Press of Nagoya

      Pages: 745

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [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

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Published: 2010-02-04  

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