23-24 November 2017
Universitat de Girona

Organizers
Alexandra Beauchamp (U. Limoges)
Miriam Cabré (ILCC-UdG)
Isabel Grifoll (U. Lleida)
Pere Ortí (IRH-UdG)
Albert Reixach (ILCC-UdG)

Scientific committee
Stefano Asperti (U. Roma La Sapienza)
Martin Aurell (U. Poitiers)
Lola Badia (U. Barcelona)
Hélène Débax (U. Toulouse)
Ruth Harvey (Royal Holloway, U. London)
Linda Paterson (U. Warwick)
Lluís To (IRH-UdG).

Programme :

Thursday, 23 November 2017
Capella del Roser (Faculty of Arts UdG)

Opening session

09.00-09.30 Welcome
09.30-10.00 Alexandra Beauchamp (U. Limoges) – Miriam Cabré (ILCC-UdG)
Courts and Troubadours: What Would We Like to Learn?
10.00-10.30 Discussion

Session 1 — Powerful networks

10.30-11.00 Hélène Débax (U. Toulouse-Jean Jaurès)
Noble Sociability and Occitan Networks
11.00-11.30 Discussion – Respondent: Marina Navàs (U. Aix-Marseille)
11.30-12.00 Coffee break

12.00-12.30 Luigi Provero (U. Torino)
Courts and Places of Power in Italy
12.30-13.00 Discussion – Respondent: Paolo Di Luca (U. Napoli Federico II)

13.00-13.30 Alejandro Martinez (IRH-UdG)
Royal and Noble Courts in the Crown of Aragon
13.30-14.00 Discussion – Respondent: Isabel Grifoll (U. Lleida)

14.00-16.00 Lunch

Session 2 — Court gatherings

16.00-16.30 Pere Orti (IRH-UdG)
Parliamentary Meetings and Other Gatherings in the Courtly Calendars
16.30-17.00 Discussion – Respondent: Sadurní Martí (ILCC-UdG)

17.00-17.30 Christian Rémy (Doctor in Medieval History)
Castles and Places of Performance
17.30-18.00 Discussion – Respondent: Gilda Caïti Russo (U. Montpellier)

Friday, 24 November 2017
Cartoteca, Barri Vell Library-UdG

Session 3 — The reality of troubadour performance

09.30-10.00 Christelle Chaillou (CNRS/CESCM UMR 7302)
Towards an Understanding of Troubadour Performance
10.00-10.30 Discussion – Respondent: Anna Radaelli (U. Roma La Sapienza)

10.30-11.00 Martine Clouzot (U. Bourgogne)
Updating our Views on Jongleurs
11.00-11.30 Discussion – Respondent: Catherine Léglu (U. Reading)

11.30-12.00 Coffee break

Session 4 — The reality of troubadour circulation

12.00-12.30 Marco Grimaldi (U. Roma La Sapienza)
Troubadour Itinerancy
12.30-13.00 Discussion – Respondent: Albert Reixach (ILCC-UdG)

13.00-13.30 William Burgwinkle (U. Cambridge)
Here and there: poetic dialogue and court politics
13.30-14.00 Discussion — Respondent: Pere Benito (U. Lleida)

14.00-16.00 Lunch

Closing session

16.00-16.30 Ruth Harvey (Royal Holloway, U. London)
Courts and troubadours, what have we learnt?
16.30-17.00 Discussion