At once a royal secretary, a poet, and a composer, Guillaume de
Machaut was one of the most protean and creative figures of the
late Middle Ages. Rather than focus on a single strand of his
remarkable career, Elizabeth Eva Leach gives us a book that
encompasses all aspects of his work, illuminating it in a
distinctively interdisciplinary light. The author provides a
comprehensive picture of Machaut's artistry, reviews the
documentary evidence about his life, charts the different agendas
pursued by modern scholarly disciplines in their rediscovery and
use of specific parts of his output, and delineates Machaut's own
poetic and material presentation of his authorial persona.
Leach treats Machaut's central poetic themes of hope, fortune,
and death, integrating the aspect of Machaut's multimedia art that
differentiates him from his contemporaries' treatment of similar
thematic issues: music. In restoring the centrality of music in
Machaut's poetics, arguing that his words cannot be truly
understood or appreciated without the additional layers of meaning
created in their musicalization, Leach makes a compelling argument
that musico-literary performance occupied a special place in the
courts of fourteenth-century France.
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