TY - JOUR
T1 - The representation of the crusades in the songs attributed to Thibaud, Count Palatine of Champagne
AU - Jordan, William Chester
PY - 1999/3/1
Y1 - 1999/3/1
N2 - Thibaud of Champagne (1201-1253) was count of Champagne and, from 1234, king of Navarre. He was an accomplished poet, and indeed is better known as a chansonnier than as a statesman, although he was involved in many of the most important political struggles in France and led a crusade to the East. Several songs attributed to him deal with crusading. A fresh reading of these poems affords an opportunity to penetrate the mental world of a representative member of the French aristocracy in the first half of the thirteenth century, and it confirms Jonathan Riley-Smith's famous observation that, in the Catholic ethical universe of the time, crusading was an 'act of love'.
AB - Thibaud of Champagne (1201-1253) was count of Champagne and, from 1234, king of Navarre. He was an accomplished poet, and indeed is better known as a chansonnier than as a statesman, although he was involved in many of the most important political struggles in France and led a crusade to the East. Several songs attributed to him deal with crusading. A fresh reading of these poems affords an opportunity to penetrate the mental world of a representative member of the French aristocracy in the first half of the thirteenth century, and it confirms Jonathan Riley-Smith's famous observation that, in the Catholic ethical universe of the time, crusading was an 'act of love'.
KW - Chanson
KW - Crusade
KW - Jews
KW - Thibaud IV
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U2 - 10.1016/S0304-4181(98)00017-7
DO - 10.1016/S0304-4181(98)00017-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0040440056
SN - 0304-4181
VL - 25
SP - 27
EP - 34
JO - Journal of Medieval History
JF - Journal of Medieval History
IS - 1
ER -