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“[…], 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.""

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Author:   Clifford Davidson ,  Sophie Oosterwijk
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Weight:   0.620kg
ISBN:  

9789004442597

ISBN 10:   9004442596
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   08 April 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface List of Figures Biographical Information 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  Manuscripts of the A–Group  Manuscripts of the B–Group  Editorial Principles Part 1: John Lydgate’s Dance of Death 2 Edited Texts: John Lydgate’s Dance of Death  MS. Bodleian Selden Supra 53  Lansdowne MS. 699, fols. 41–50  Oxford, Douce BB53 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 Douce BB.53 (Fakes Edition) 4 Critical Notes: John Lydgate’s Dance of Death  Stanzas Only in the B–Group, Following the Order of Lansdowne MS. 699 Part 2: The French Danse Macabre 5 Edited Text and Translation: Guy Marchant’s Danse Macabre (1485) 6 Woodcuts and Comments: Guy Marchant’s Danse Macabre (1485) 7 Textual Notes: Guy Marchant’s Danse Macabre (1485) 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

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[...] this volume is a tour-de-force and there can be little doubt that it will stand the test of time and be widely accepted as a standard work. - Sally Badham, Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture, 7, 4, 2021.

Author Information

Clifford Davidson, Ph.D. (Wayne State University, 1966), Professor Emeritus of English and Medieval Studies, former director of the Early Drama, Art, and Music project, Western Michigan University, and a founding editor of Comparative Drama. Publications include many books, editions, and articles. Sophie Oosterwijk, Ph.D. in Art History (Leicester, 1999) and English Literature (Leiden, 2009), Honorary Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews. She has published two edited volumes and numerous articles on the Danse Macabre, medieval tomb monuments and commemoration.

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