Guillaume de Machaut, The Complete Poetry and Music, Volume 9
Guillaume de Machaut, The Complete Poetry and Music, Volume 9

Author: Jacques Boogaart

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Published: 2017-12-31

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1580442889

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This long overdue new edition of Guillaume de Machaut's twenty-three motets, the largest surviving collection of such works by a single composer in this period, is based on the most authoritative of the surviving manuscripts and is designed to meet the needs both of advanced scholars and musicians as well as students and performers. This user-friendly format indicates variants on the scores and has a layout that makes each work's structure clearly visible; the lyrics, with full English translation, are presented at the end of each work.

Guillaume de Machaut, The Complete Poetry and Music, Volume 2
Guillaume de Machaut, The Complete Poetry and Music, Volume 2

Author: Uri Smilansky

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Published: 2019-04-26

Total Pages: 625

ISBN-13: 1580443907

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This volume is the second of the thirteen in preparation that will offer the first complete scholarly edition of the poetry and music of Guillaume de Machaut, the foremost practitioner of these related arts at the end of the Middle Ages in France. It provides a freshly prepared edition based on the most reliable manuscript of two of Machaut's best known dits, the Remede de Fortune (Remedy for Fortune) and the Confort d'ami (Consolation from a Friend), both of which adapt the central ideas of Boethian philosophy to the love poetry tradition. The French texts are accompanied by facing English translations, and the musical passages are presented in situ in a performance-accessible form.

Guillaume de Machaut
Guillaume de Machaut

Author: Elizabeth Eva Leach

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2014-06-12

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1501704869

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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.

The Owl and the Nightingale and the English Poems of Jesus College MS 29 (II)
The Owl and the Nightingale and the English Poems of Jesus College MS 29 (II)

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Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Published: 2022-05-25

Total Pages: 483

ISBN-13: 1580445225

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An edition of the early Middle English verse sequence contained in the thirteenth-century Oxford Jesus College MS 29 (II) with accompanying translations in Modern English and scholarly introduction and apparatus. The sequence is varied in subject, with poems of religious exhortation set beside others of secular pragmatism. Included are: The Owl and the Nightingale, Poema Morale, The Proverbs of Alfred, Thomas of Hales's Love Rune, The Eleven Pains of Hell, the prose Shires and Hundreds of England, the lengthy Passion of Jesus Christ in English, and twenty-one additional lyrics, most of them uniquely preserved in this manuscript. Made in the West Midlands, the Jesus 29 manuscript is the lengthiest all-English verse collection known to exist in the period between the Exeter Book and the Harley Lyrics.

Of Knyghthode and Bataile
Of Knyghthode and Bataile

Author: Michael Livingston

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Published: 2021-06-02

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1580444776

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Of Knyghthode and Bataile adapts the most widely used military manual in the Middle Ages into English verse. Responding to both the evolution of warfare and the historical background of his own time, its anonymous poet produced what one critic has called "one of the most brilliant military poems of the fifteenth century."

Two Middle English Prayer Cycles
Two Middle English Prayer Cycles

Author: Ben Parsons

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Published: 2023-10-09

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1580446833

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This book is the first critical edition of two fascinating but overlooked devotional texts. Each shines its own light on medieval faith. The Holkham Prayers and Meditations (ca.1410) is a rare example of female authorship, written by an unnamed woman to guide a "religious sustir." Simon Appulby's Fruyte of Redempcyon (1514) is more popular in aim, composed by one of England's last anchorites to serve his urban community. Both texts are accompanied by extensive notes and introductory essays to aid students and specialists alike.

The Roland and Otuel Romances and the Anglo-Norman Otinel
The Roland and Otuel Romances and the Anglo-Norman Otinel

Author: Susanna Fein

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Published: 2020-09-30

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 1580444121

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This edition contains four Middle English Charlemagne romances from the Otuel cycle: Roland and Vernagu, Otuel a Knight, Otuel and Roland, and Duke Roland and Sir Otuel of Spain. A translation of the romances' source, the Anglo-French Otinel, is also included. The romances center on conflicts between Frankish Christians and various Saracen groups, and deal with issues of racial and religious difference, conversion, and faith-based violence.

John Lydgate's Dance of Death and Related Works
John Lydgate's Dance of Death and Related Works

Author: Megan L Cook

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Published: 2019-10-31

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1580444083

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This volume joins new editions of both texts of John Lydgate's The Dance of Death, related Middle English verse, and a new translation of Lydgate's French source, the Danse macabre. Together these poems showcase the power of the danse macabre motif, offering a window into life and death in late medieval Europe. In vivid, often grotesque, and darkly humorous terms, these poems ponder life's fundamental paradox: while we know that we all must die, we cannot imagine our own death.

Six Scottish Courtly and Chivalric Poems, Including Lyndsay's Squyer Meldrum
Six Scottish Courtly and Chivalric Poems, Including Lyndsay's Squyer Meldrum

Author: Rhiannon Purdie

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Published: 2018-09-30

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1580444105

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These six poems explore some of the courtly and chivalric themes that preoccupied late medieval Scottish society. The volume includes Sir David Lyndsay's Historie and Testament of Squyer Meldrum, as well as his Answer to the Kingis Flyting; and three anonymous fifteenth-century poems: Balletis of the Nine Nobles, Complaint for the Death of Margaret, Princess of Scotland, and Talis of the Fyve Bestes.

Guillaume de Machaut
Guillaume de Machaut

Author: Lawrence Earp

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-08-21

Total Pages: 680

ISBN-13: 1136781773

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First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.