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Article: Guillaume de Machaut: the Capture of Alexandria & La Prise d'Alexandrie (The Taking of Alexandria).(two translations)(Book Review)
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- Medium Aevum
- Article date:
- March 22, 2003
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Guillaume de Machaut: The Capture of Alexandria, trans. Janet Shirley, introd. and notes Peter W. Edbury, Crusade Texts in Translation 8 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001), xiv + 218 pp.; 1 illustration. ISBN 0-7546-0101-3. [pounds sterling] 37.50.
Guillaume de Machaut: La Prise d'Alexandrie (The Taking of Alexandria), ed. and trans. R. Barton Palmer (New York: Routledge, 2002). 462 pp. ISBN 0-8153-2650-5. [pounds sterling] 85.00.
You wait more than a century for a modern edition of Machaut's Prise d'Alexandrie (de Mas Latrie's, the only existing one, dates from 1877)--and then, extraordinarily, two come along at once, with another edition of the original text, ...