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Pseudo-autobiography in the Fourteenth Century: Juan Ruiz Guillaume de Machaut, Jean Froissart and Geoffrey Chaucer.(Review)

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From: Medium Aevum
Date: 19990322
Author:BENNETT, PHILIP E.

Laurence de Looze, Pseudo-autobiography in the Fourteenth Century: Juan Ruiz Guillaume de Machaut, Jean Froissart and Geoffrey Chaucer (Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 1997), xii + 212 pp. ISBN 0-8130-1507-3. $49.00.

This ambitious study, tackling works in three different languages, builds on the notion of pseudo-autobiography explored by G. B. Gybbon-Moneypenny in his studies of Machaut and Juan Ruiz in the early 1970s. Apart from the chapter devoted to each of the authors considered, the book contains an introduction and conclusion which set the analyses ...

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