Thibaut de Champagne and the Troubadours (A Roundtable)

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Société Guilhem IX

Organizer Name

Mary Franklin-Brown

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Cambridge

Presider Name

Wendy Pfeffer

Presider Affiliation

Univ. of Louisville

Paper Title 1

Thibaut de Champagne at the Crossroads between the Troubadours and the Trouvères

Presenter 1 Name

Christopher J. Callahan

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Illinois Wesleyan Univ.

Paper Title 2

Thibaut's Blazons as Arabic (Women) Figures

Presenter 2 Name

Rebecca Hill

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of California-Los Angeles

Paper Title 3

Thibaut and the Troubadours

Presenter 3 Name

Elizabeth K. Hebbard

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Indiana Univ.-Bloomington

Paper Title 4

Thibaut in the Classroom

Presenter 4 Name

Lisa Shugert Bevevino

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Univ. of Minnesota-Morris

Paper Title 5

Response

Presenter 5 Name

Christopher Davis

Presenter 5 Affiliation

Northwestern Univ.

Start Date

9-5-2019 3:30 PM

Session Location

Bernhard 212

Description

Thibaut was the heir not only to the county of Champagne and kingdom of Navarre, but also to the poetic traditions that had come to him through his grandmother Marie and great-grandmother Eleanor, patrons of letters and the arts, and through his great-great-great-grandfather, Guilhem IX, the first named troubadour whose compositions have survived. Like his troubadour ancestor, Thibaut was a lyricist, leaving behind a sophisticated body of erotic and religious songs in his own language, Champenois French. The Société Guilhem IX celebrates the magisterial new edition of Thibaut’s lyric by Christopher Callahan, Marie-Geneviève Grossel, and Daniel O’Sullivan (Éditions Honoré Champion, 2018) with a roundtable exploring links between Thibaut and the troubadours. Mary Franklin-Brown