A Companion to Guillaume de Machaut

This collection provides a comprehensive reading of Machaut's literary and musical corpus that privileges his engagement with contemporary political, ethical, and aesthetic concerns of late medieval culture as well as his reception by artists and thinkers, medieval and modern.

About the author

Jennifer Bain, Ph.D. (2001) in Music Theory, Stony Brook University, is Chair of the Department of Music at Dalhousie University. She has published widely on medieval music, recently editing a special issue of the Journal of Music Theory.

Deborah McGrady, Ph.D. (1997) in French, University of California, Santa Barbara, is Chair of the Department of French at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Controlling Readers: Guillaume de Machaut and His Late Medieval Audience (Toronto, 2006).

Product details

• Assisted by: Deborah McGrady (Editor), Jennifer Bain (Editor), Jeanette Patterson (Translation)
• Publisher: Brill
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 27.08.2012
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity
• EAN: 9789004225817
• ISBN: 978-90-04-22581-7
• Pages: 414
• Dimensions (packing): 16.3 x 24.1 x 2.8 cm
• Weight (packing): 680 g
• Series: Brill's Companions to the Chri > 33; Brill
• Subjects: Christentum, Geschichte der Religion, Nachschlagewerke, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious, REFERENCE / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, RELIGION / Christianity / History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literature - Classics / Criticism, POETRY / European / General, Literaturwissenschaft: Antike, Klassik, Mittelalter