John Lydgate, the Dance of Death, and its model, the French Danse macabre
By: edited by Clifford Davidson, Sophie Oosterwijk
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng; enm; fre
Translated from: enm; fre
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9789004442597; 9789004442603
Subjects: Textual Criticism; Sources; Dance of death; Death in literature; Death; Poetry; History
Other titles: Dance of Death; Dance of Death. English.
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book includes: old-spelling texts in Middle English of Lydgate's poem, which was adapted from French; the French Danse Macabre poem as first printed by the Paris-based publisher Guy Marchant; and a translation of the French Danse Macabre poem in this edition by Sophie Oosterwijk.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: John Lydgate's Dance of death. Edited texts: John Lydgate's Dance of death; title: Textual notes: John Lydgate's Dance of death; title: Critical notes: John Lydgate's Dance of death; title: The French Danse macabre. Edited text and translation: Guy Marchant's Danse Macabre (1485); title: Woodcuts and comments: Guy Marchant's Danse Macabre (1485); title: Textual notes: Guy Marchant's Danse Macabre (1485); title: Critical notes: Guy Marchant's Danse Macabre (1485); title: 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).