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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.

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The first book-length account of Machaut's life and works to include the perspective of musicology as well as of history and literature, Elizabeth Eva Leach s book provides an excellent synthesis of current scholarship and will be an important reference point for readers in several disciplines. Ardis Butterfield, author of Poetry and Music in Medieval France

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