Rituals and the Sound of War – The Belliphonic in the Middle Ages

By Hannah Potthoff, Technische Universität Chemnitz

Sound studies are an important aspect of both the study of rituals as well as of war. Researching the belliphonic, as done in the DFG-funded project “Belliphonie im Mittelalter” at TU Chemnitz, can give important insights in how sounds were used in medieval wars as part of warfare and its narration and memory.