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Paterson, Linda M. (2016) Troubadours, trouvères and the crusades. [Online]. (https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/modernlanguages/res...). Coventry, United Kingdom: University of Warwick, Department of French.
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Abstract
The crusades have left a profound and disturbing legacy in inter-cultural and inter-faith relations nationally and worldwide. They continue to be of compelling interest and relevance to students, scholars and the wider public, with crusading rhetoric alive in the global political discourse transmitted daily in the media. The songs of the troubadours and trouvères include scores of original sources that bring to life medieval, up-to-the-minute responses to the crusades.
A four-year Anglo-Italian project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the UK, will allow academic researchers and teachers, school-teachers, students, and any interested member of the general public to access and exploit the original source material represented by these medieval songs (see background and texts), in the light of a number of research questions:
What did the secular public in the Middle Ages think of the crusades?
How far did they accept, influence, participate in, resist or challenge the Church’s crusading propaganda?
How far were they inspired by the idea of holy war?
How were their attitudes affected by the Albigensian crusade, launched against troubadour lands in the South?
How did they face the repeated failures of crusading efforts as time went on?
What light do the songs shed on particular crusades, and what do they add to our knowledge of them?
What regional differences do they reflect?
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > French Studies Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures |
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Publisher: | University of Warwick, Department of French | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of Publication: | Coventry, United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Official Date: | May 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Media of Output (format): | Website | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description: | This collaborative project, involving the University of Warwick, the University of La Sapienza in Rome, and Royal Holloway, University of London, was funded by the AHRC from 1 June 2011 to 31 Jan 2016, following a pilot study funded by the British Academy and the University of Warwick. Its activities have included the production of a major online resource freely available to researchers, students, teachers and the general public, research publications, public presentations and lectures, a one-day international conference in London open to the public, the publication of musical and spoken recordings, a presentation to schoolteachers, a poetry competition, and the creation of a music group Medieval Song at Warwick. The work done by the RA and Consultant has generated new university courses in Italy and Switzerland. |
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