Anne Walters Robertson is Professor of Music at The University of Chicago. She is the author of The Service Books of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis: Images of Ritual and Music in the Middle Ages (1991). She was awarded the John Nicholas Brown Prize of the Medieval Academy of America in 1995.

'… impressive addition indeed to the bibliography on this composer … I applaud her fascinating interpretative work … this undeniably full and rewarding book is sure to stimulate debate and open new avenues of research for many decades to come.' Journal of Plainsong & Medieval Music

• List of figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and conventions; Prologue: context and meaning in Guillaume de Machaut's musical works; Part I. Reims and its Music: Cathedral, City, Archdiocese: 1. Guillaume de Machaut in Reims; 2. Canonical affirmation and resistance in Machaut's motets 18 and 19; Part II. Turned-About Love Songs: 3. Machaut's motets 1-17 and the medieval mystical tradition; 4. The beginning of love's journey; 5. The middle of love's journey: the struggle with sin; 6. The end of love's journey: union with the beloved; Part III. Music of War, Kingship and Final Things: 7. Machaut's late motets and the Hundred Years War in Reims; 8. Machaut's David Hocket and the coronation of Charles V (1364); 9. Machaut's Mass of Our Lady and composer remembrance through music; Epilogue: context, meaning and artistry in Machaut's music; Appendix A: documents; Appendix B: texts and translations of Machaut's motets; Appendix C: manuscripts consulted for the musical examples; Notes; Bibliography; Index of works by Machaut; Index of manuscripts; General index.

Anne Walters Robertson is Professor of Music at The University of Chicago. She is the author of The Service Books of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis: Images of Ritual and Music in the Middle Ages (1991). She was awarded the John Nicholas Brown Prize of the Medieval Academy of America in 1995.

'… impressive addition indeed to the bibliography on this composer … I applaud her fascinating interpretative work … this undeniably full and rewarding book is sure to stimulate debate and open new avenues of research for many decades to come.' Journal of Plainsong & Medieval Music

• List of figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and conventions; Prologue: context and meaning in Guillaume de Machaut's musical works; Part I. Reims and its Music: Cathedral, City, Archdiocese: 1. Guillaume de Machaut in Reims; 2. Canonical affirmation and resistance in Machaut's motets 18 and 19; Part II. Turned-About Love Songs: 3. Machaut's motets 1-17 and the medieval mystical tradition; 4. The beginning of love's journey; 5. The middle of love's journey: the struggle with sin; 6. The end of love's journey: union with the beloved; Part III. Music of War, Kingship and Final Things: 7. Machaut's late motets and the Hundred Years War in Reims; 8. Machaut's David Hocket and the coronation of Charles V (1364); 9. Machaut's Mass of Our Lady and composer remembrance through music; Epilogue: context, meaning and artistry in Machaut's music; Appendix A: documents; Appendix B: texts and translations of Machaut's motets; Appendix C: manuscripts consulted for the musical examples; Notes; Bibliography; Index of works by Machaut; Index of manuscripts; General index.