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The Tale of the Alerion (Paperback) Loot Price: R795
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The Tale of  the  Alerion (Paperback): Guillaume De MacHaut

The Tale of the Alerion (Paperback)

Guillaume De MacHaut; Edited by Minnette Gaudet, Constance B Hieatt

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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.

General

Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of origin: Canada
Release date: July 2013
First published: 1994
Authors: Guillaume De MacHaut
Editors: Minnette Gaudet • Constance B Hieatt
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 978-1-4426-2606-5
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN: 1-4426-2606-2
Barcode: 9781442626065

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