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A bit of both DomA Send a noteboard - 19/02/2013 03:15:32 PM
I only know him through his musical accomplishments, but I'm led to believe he was a very good poet as well.


The end of the third age is the used conventionally (1340) but works from at least half a century on either side of that date are classified on a one by one basis (or by elements), and classification will vary whether it's made by linguists who have specific factors or if it's one of the classifications made by literature scholars who use more Medieval vs. Renaissance for denominations and consider factors other than strictly linguistic ones, such as aesthetics, form or themes.

Guillaume de Machaut falls with the late (troisième age) medieval poets from the literary perspective. I'm not sure if linguists call the language he used Old or Middle French or point out different elements from both. I can tell you his Le Remède de Fortune (ca 1340) still provides lexical examples and sources in my old French dictionary and a later work like his Le Voir Dit appears in my Middle French one.
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Is de Machaut Old French or Middle? - 19/02/2013 09:02:15 AM 525 Views
Probably Middle - 19/02/2013 03:12:11 PM 580 Views
A bit of both - 19/02/2013 03:15:32 PM 639 Views
They have a few of his poems in the anthology - I checked. - 20/02/2013 01:22:15 AM 819 Views
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Sure, why not? - 20/02/2013 04:59:01 PM 614 Views

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