The tale of the alerion / Guillaume de Machaut ; edited and translated by Minnette Gaudet and Constance B. Hieatt.

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Guillaume, de Machaut, approximately 1300-1377

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TextLanguage: English Original language: French, Old (ca. 842-1300) Series: Toronto medieval texts and translations ; 10.Publication details: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1994.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 192 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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9781442616561
1442616563

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Dit de l'alerion. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Tale of the alerion.DDC classification:

841/.1 20

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PQ1483.G5 D5713 1994

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Summary: Annotation 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 38-43) and index.

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Annotation 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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