Book Review
Jul. 20th, 2016 09:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariGuillaume de Machaut: Secretary, Poet, Musician
by Elizabeth Eva Leach
This book was a wonderful, if somewhat heavy reading. Leach takes a very interdisciplinary approach to Machaut's life and work. While she does give music just a bit more of the foreground, she gives equal importance and attention to Machaut's work as a writer and producer of books. Leach is very thorough without being long-winded or ponderous. She covers not only the content and substance of his work, but also how it interacts with and what it reveals about courtly culture in 14th century France. Machaut's life, work, and world are endlessly fascinating, and Leach really brings that out.
by Elizabeth Eva Leach
This book was a wonderful, if somewhat heavy reading. Leach takes a very interdisciplinary approach to Machaut's life and work. While she does give music just a bit more of the foreground, she gives equal importance and attention to Machaut's work as a writer and producer of books. Leach is very thorough without being long-winded or ponderous. She covers not only the content and substance of his work, but also how it interacts with and what it reveals about courtly culture in 14th century France. Machaut's life, work, and world are endlessly fascinating, and Leach really brings that out.
