John Lydgate, the Dance of Death, and Its Model, the French Danse Macabre.
Davidson, Clifford.
John Lydgate, the Dance of Death, and Its Model, the French Danse Macabre. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (295 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Figures -- Biographical Information -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- The Dance of Paul's -- Iconographic Representations of Death -- The Dance of Death and the Popular Imagination -- The Role of Death in Life -- A Topical and Adaptable Motif -- The Origins of the Dance of Death -- The Danse Macabre Mural in Paris -- Further Dissemination of the Danse Macabre -- Manuscripts and Printed Texts -- Lydgate's Dance of Death: Manuscripts -- Manuscripts of the A-Group -- Manuscripts of the B-Group -- Lydgate's Dance of Death: Printed Texts -- The French Danse Macabre: Manuscripts -- Guy Marchant's Editions of 1485 and 1486 -- Editorial Principles -- Part 1 John Lydgate's Dance of Death -- Chapter 2 Edited Texts: John Lydgate's Dance of Death -- Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Selden Supra 53 -- London, British Library, MS. Lansdowne 699 -- Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce BB.53 (Fakes edition) -- Chapter 3 Textual Notes: John Lydgate's Dance of Death -- A-Group (Bodleian Library, MS. Selden Supra 53) -- B-Group (British Library, MS. Lansdowne 699) -- Textual Notes to Bodleian Library, Douce BB.53 -- Chapter 4 Critical Notes: John Lydgate's Dance of Death -- Stanzas Only in the B-Group, Following the Order of MS. Lansdowne 699 -- Part 2 The French Danse Macabre -- Chapter 5 Edited Text and Translation: Guy Marchant's Danse Macabre (1485) -- Chapter 6 Woodcuts and Comments: Guy Marchant's Danse Macabre (1485) -- Chapter 7 Textual Notes: Guy Marchant's Danse Macabre (1485) -- Chapter 8 Critical Notes: Guy Marchant's Danse Macabre (1485) -- Appendix Transcription of the "Chambéry roll," a French Dramatized Danse Macabre Text of the Late Fourteenth or Early Fifteenth Century (Collection Claudius Bouvier, Archives départementales de Savoie, Chambéry, France) -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index.
"[...], Davidson's and Oosterwijk's volume [...] offers a deeply researched, wide-ranging, and profoundly valuable overview of major Anglo-French contributions to the broader danse macabre tradition." - Elizaveta Strakhov, University of Marquette, USA in Speculum, 2023. "This book combines a scholarly edition of Lydgate's Dance of Death and the French Danse Macabre poem, and discusses their wider context and historical circumstances of their creation, authorship and visualisation.".
9789004442603
Electronic books.
PR2034.D363 .D385 2021
John Lydgate, the Dance of Death, and Its Model, the French Danse Macabre. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (295 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Figures -- Biographical Information -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- The Dance of Paul's -- Iconographic Representations of Death -- The Dance of Death and the Popular Imagination -- The Role of Death in Life -- A Topical and Adaptable Motif -- The Origins of the Dance of Death -- The Danse Macabre Mural in Paris -- Further Dissemination of the Danse Macabre -- Manuscripts and Printed Texts -- Lydgate's Dance of Death: Manuscripts -- Manuscripts of the A-Group -- Manuscripts of the B-Group -- Lydgate's Dance of Death: Printed Texts -- The French Danse Macabre: Manuscripts -- Guy Marchant's Editions of 1485 and 1486 -- Editorial Principles -- Part 1 John Lydgate's Dance of Death -- Chapter 2 Edited Texts: John Lydgate's Dance of Death -- Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Selden Supra 53 -- London, British Library, MS. Lansdowne 699 -- Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce BB.53 (Fakes edition) -- Chapter 3 Textual Notes: John Lydgate's Dance of Death -- A-Group (Bodleian Library, MS. Selden Supra 53) -- B-Group (British Library, MS. Lansdowne 699) -- Textual Notes to Bodleian Library, Douce BB.53 -- Chapter 4 Critical Notes: John Lydgate's Dance of Death -- Stanzas Only in the B-Group, Following the Order of MS. Lansdowne 699 -- Part 2 The French Danse Macabre -- Chapter 5 Edited Text and Translation: Guy Marchant's Danse Macabre (1485) -- Chapter 6 Woodcuts and Comments: Guy Marchant's Danse Macabre (1485) -- Chapter 7 Textual Notes: Guy Marchant's Danse Macabre (1485) -- Chapter 8 Critical Notes: Guy Marchant's Danse Macabre (1485) -- Appendix Transcription of the "Chambéry roll," a French Dramatized Danse Macabre Text of the Late Fourteenth or Early Fifteenth Century (Collection Claudius Bouvier, Archives départementales de Savoie, Chambéry, France) -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index.
"[...], Davidson's and Oosterwijk's volume [...] offers a deeply researched, wide-ranging, and profoundly valuable overview of major Anglo-French contributions to the broader danse macabre tradition." - Elizaveta Strakhov, University of Marquette, USA in Speculum, 2023. "This book combines a scholarly edition of Lydgate's Dance of Death and the French Danse Macabre poem, and discusses their wider context and historical circumstances of their creation, authorship and visualisation.".
9789004442603
Electronic books.
PR2034.D363 .D385 2021