Guillaume de Machaut The Capture of Alexandria 1st Edition by Janet Shirley ,Peter W Edbury ISBN 0754601013 978-0754601012

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Author:Janet Shirley ,Peter W.Edbury

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.

Table of contents: 

Introduction
The Capture of Alexandria: Prologue
Peter’s calling to be a crusader
Peter’s first visit to the west
The Alexandria campaign
Raids and negotiations
The relief of Gorhigos
The failure of negotiations
The attack on Tripoli and Ayas
The second visit to the west and the quarrel with Lesparre
The murder of the king
Illustrative Texts: Attacks on the Syrian coast
The aftermath of the murder

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