John Lydgate, the Dance of Death, and Its Model, the French Danse Macabre

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-44259-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 620 g

This edition of John Lydgate’s Dance of Death offers a detailed comparison of the different text versions, a new scholarly edition and translation of Guy Marchant’s 1485 French Danse Macabre text, and an art-historical analysis of its woodcut illustrations.

It addresses the cultural context and historical circumstances of Lydgate’s poem and its model, the mural of 1424-25 with accompanying French poem in Paris, as well as their precursors, notably the Vado mori poems and the Legend of the Three Living and the Three Dead. It discusses authorship, the personification and vizualisation of Death, and the wider dissemination of the Dance. The edited texts include commentaries, notes, and a glossary.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Davidson, Clifford

Oosterwijk, Sophie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.