Guillaume de Machaut

The Capture of Alexandria
Herausgeber: Shirley, Janet; Edbury, Peter W

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Produktbeschreibung

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 Cyp

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9781032180205
• ISBN-10: 103218020X
• Artikelnr.: 62574612

Autorenporträt

Janet Shirley

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
The Capture of Alexandria: Prologue
Peter's calling to be a crusader
Peter's first visit to the west (1362-65)
The Alexandria campaign (1365)
Raids and negotiations (1366-67)
The relief of Gorhigos (1367)
The failure of negotiations (1367)
The attack on Tripoli and Ayas (1367)
The second visit to the west and the quarrel with Lesparre (1367-68)
The murder of the king (1369)
Illustrative Texts: Attacks on the Syrian coast in 1367
The aftermath of the murder
Bibliography
Index.