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James I. Wimsatt.
Chaucer and his French Contemporaries: Natural Music in the Fourteenth Century.
Publisher: Toronto U.P., 1993 (previously issued in hardback, 1991).
ISBN 0802071899;
ISBN-13: 9780802071897.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printed in Canada.
Size: 150x228x29mm.
Page count: xv,378 plus 14pp.
Main language: English; quotations from Middle English given without translation, those from other languages have an English translation following.
Overall condition fair to good: this copy has some mild scuffs on the covers, a bit of wear on the edges and corners; page edges slightly grubby; the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.

This item £9.00
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Weight without packaging: 637g.

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Contents: Natural music in Middle French verse & Chaucer; Poetry in the English court before Poitiers (1356) — Jean de la Mote; Chaucer & Machaut — man, poet, persona; Machaut's oeuvre & Chaucer’s early poems; Machaut & his tradition — Troilus, the Legend, & the Tales; Chaucer & Froissart; Chaucer & Oton de Granson; Chaucer & Eustache Deschamps; Natural music in 1400.

Illustrations: 14 pages of monochrome illustrations
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 14pp
Index: yes

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