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Guillaume de Machaut, the most important poet and musician of fourteenth-century France, had considerable influence on subsequent generations of writers in both France and England. With this scholarly translation, Minnette Gaudet and Constance B. Hieatt made his longneglected narrative poem, the Dit de l'alerion - a treatise on love and falconry - available to students of medieval literature. In the poem, Machaut defines the problems and pleasures of courtly love by comparing them to those of falconry, a sport which modern readers know little about. The introduction and notes to this edition provide valuable information about the art of falconry, thus clarifying aspects of the poem which might be hard to understand today. The scholarly notes and introduction furnish explications and variant readings of obscure passages and comments on wordplay. A running summary of the contents of the poem is also provided in the margins.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Tale of the Alerion
• Author: Guillaume De Machaut
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200
• EAN: 9781442626065
• ISBN: 9781442626065
• ID: 06759759
• Publisher: University Of Toronto Press
• Weight: 336 g
• Dimensions: 230 × 154 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. July 2013

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