A Companion to Guillaume de Machaut

Introduction / Deborah McGrady and Jennifer Bain --
Section I. Machaut in perspective --
1. The poetic I / Helen J. Swift --
2. Guillaume de Machaut and the forms of Pre-Humanism in Fourteenth-Century France / Anne-Hélène Miller --
3. Poet as Musician / Elizabeth Eva Leach --
Section II. Select works in disciplinary dialogue --
4. 'Ma fin est mon commencement' : the essence of poetry and song in Guillaume de Machaut / Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet --
5. ' ... et mon commencement ma fin' : Genre and Machaut's musical language in his secular songs / Jennifer Bain --
6. Machaut and debate poetry / Emma Cayley --
7. Moving across media : Machaut's Lais and the judgement tradition / Benjamin Albritton --
Section III. Situating Machaut's music --
8. Machaut's musical heritage / Mark Everist --
9. Self-citation and compositional process in Guillaume de Machaut's lyrics with and without music : the case of "Dame, se vous n'avez apercii" (Rondeau 13) / Yolanda Plumley --
10. The motets read and heard / Alice V. Clark --
11. Declamation as expression in Machaut's music / Lawrence Earp --
Section IV. Contextualizing Machaut's literature --
12. Guillaume de Machaut and the classical tradition : individual talent and (un)communal tradition / R. Barton Palmer --
13. 'Laissier le mal, le bien eslire' : History, allegory, and ethical reading in the works of Guillaume de Machaut / Daisy Delogu --
14. History's fixers : informants, mediators, and writers in the Prise d'Alexandre / Zrinka Stahuljak --
15. Instrumental comparisons : Machaut's shorter Dits / Julie Singer --
Section V : Tradition and reception --
16. Guillaume de Machaut's Lyric poetry / Barbara K. Altmann --
17. Performing Machaut's Messe de Notre Dame : From modernist allegiances to the postmodern hinterland / Kirsten Yri --
18. Machaut and his material legacy / Deborah McGrady.