This is the first edition in more than a century and the first modern English translation of the crowning masterwork of Machaut's literary career.

R. Barton Palmer is the Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature amd Director of the South Carolina Film Institute.

Introduction; Chapter 1 La Prise d'Alixandre, Guillaumede Machaut; Textual Notes; Explanatory Notes; Selected Bibliography;