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Guillaume de Machaut - The Capture of Alexandria (Paperback)
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Guillaume de Machaut - The Capture of Alexandria (Paperback)
Series: Crusade Texts in Translation
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Guillaume de Machaut, a man famous for both his poetry and his
musical compositions, wrote his Prise d'Alexandrie (or Capture of
Alexandria) just a few years after the death of his hero, King
Peter I of Cyprus (1359-69). It is a verse history of Peter's
reign, and was Machaut's last major literary work. Peter's
ancestors had ruled the island of Cyprus since the 1190s, and in
1365 Peter gained notoriety throughout western Europe as leader of
a crusading expedition which captured the Egyptian port of
Alexandria. His forces, however, were unable to retain control, and
Peter was left with a war against the Egyptian sultan. It was his
increasingly desperate measures to continue the struggle and carry
opinion with him that resulted in his murder in 1369. Machaut
relied on information relayed by French participants in Peter's
wars, but although he was not an eyewitness of these events, his
account is independent of other narratives of the reign which were
written in Cyprus apparently under the auspices of the king's
heirs.
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