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The Tale of the Alerion / Guillaume De Machaut; ed. by Constance B. Hieatt, Minnette Gaudet.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Toronto Medieval Texts and TranslationsPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©1994Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781442616578
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 841/.1 20
LOC classification:
  • PQ1483 .G88 1994eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Summary: 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 long-neglected 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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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 long-neglected 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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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