Guillaume de Machaut
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Face To Face
fourteenth century conflicts
French narrative sources
Good Life
Guillaume De Machaut
Hang Back
Hold
Hugh Iv
Human Kind
John Prince
Judas Maccabaeus
King Edward III
Kinsmen
La Prise
Leontios Makhairas
literary verse chronicles
Mamluk Sultanate
medieval crusade campaigns analysis
medieval historiography
Noble King
Peter's Reign
Peter’s Reign
Prologue
Raids and Negotiations
Sultan
The Aftermath of the Murder
The Alexandria Campaign
The Failure of Negotiations
The Murder of the King
the Quarrel with Lesparre
The Relief of Gorhigos
the Syrian Coast
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Young Man
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- ISBN 9781032180205
- Weight: 331g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 Cyprus since the 1190s, and in 1365 Peter gained notoriety throughout western Europe as leader of a crusading expedition which captured the Egyptian port of Alexandria. His forces, however, were unable to retain control, and Peter was left with a war against the Egyptian sultan. It was his increasingly desperate measures to continue the struggle and carry opinion with him that resulted in his murder in 1369. Machaut relied on information relayed by French participants in Peter’s wars, but although he was not an eyewitness of these events, his account is independent of other narratives of the reign which were written in Cyprus apparently under the auspices of the king’s heirs.
Janet Shirley
