Early modern war was a complex phenomenon that marked not only the lives of soldiers and civilians directly involved in conflicts, but also the technology, the economy and the culture of the epoch. Current intellectual approaches to war nevertheless tend to ignore that war was also experienced as a particular series of sounds, from drums to cannons and cries. In fact, aural perception constituted in many circumstances the primary source of information about the progress of military events. This article explores the sonic nature of the Eighty Year's War through a renewed analysis of the many accounts left by Spanish soldiers and officers and other international chroniclers. More specifically, it shows that sound was a defining characteristic of armies and that the disciplining of sound constituted a fundamental development in early modern wars. Sound control was associated with a crucial rise in discipline and logistics that was developed at the time and that played a key role in the nocturnal and diurnal strategies of one of the most important conflicts of the early modern epoch. Drawing on abundant, if often overlooked, information about sound and sensory perceptions found in military treatises and war chronicles, this article analyses the whole range of sonic interaction between townsmen and soldiers, and stresses the uses of sound to produce fear, force negotiation, and express joy over victories. It also reveals how war sounds affected the pattern of communications in the Low Countries and the responses of local inhabitants to the conflicts. The increasing intensity of war sounds was not merely a by-product of firearms. War sounds were integrated in early modern culture and affected the lives of numerous people, they modified the perception of civic life and helped redefine the boundaries of religious and communal identities.

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八十年战争中的声音策略和感官体验


近代早期战争是一个复杂的现象，不仅影响着直接卷入冲突的士兵和平民的生活，还影响着那个时代的技术、经济和文化。然而，当前知识分子对战争的看法往往忽略了战争也被体验为一系列特定的声音，从鼓声到大炮和哭声。事实上，在许多情况下，听觉感知构成了有关军事事件进展的主要信息来源。本文通过对西班牙士兵和军官以及其他国际编年史家留下的许多叙述的重新分析，探讨了八十年战争的声音本质。更具体地说，它表明声音是军队的一个决定性特征，而对声音的纪律构成了近代早期战争的基本发展。良好的控制与当时发展起来的纪律和后勤的关键发展有关，这在现代早期最重要的冲突之一的夜间和昼夜策略中发挥了关键作用。本文借鉴了军事论文和战争编年史中关于声音和感官感知的大量信息，分析了城镇居民和士兵之间的所有声音互动，并强调了声音的用途来产生恐惧、强迫谈判和表达对胜利的喜悦。它还揭示了战争的声音如何影响低地国家的通信模式以及当地居民对冲突的反应。越来越强烈的战争声音不仅仅是枪支的副产品。 战争的声音融入了早期现代文化，影响了许多人的生活，它们改变了人们对公民生活的看法，并帮助重新定义了宗教和社区身份的界限。