John Lydgate, the Dance of Death, and its model, the French Danse macabre /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Davidson, Clifford (Editor), Oosterwijk, Sophie (Editor, Translator), Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Middle English
Francés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Subjects:
Lydgate, John, > 1370?-1451? > Dance of death > Criticism, Textual.
Lydgate, John, > 1370?-1451? > Dance of death > Sources.
Dance of death.
Death in literature.
Death > Poetry.
Electronic books.
Danse macabre.
Mort dans la littérature.
Mort > Poésie.
Livres numériques.
e-books.
Dance of death
Death
Death in literature
History > Sources
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Poetry
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • John Lydgate's Dance of death. Edited texts: John Lydgate's Dance of death
  • Textual notes: John Lydgate's Dance of death
  • Critical notes: John Lydgate's Dance of death
  • The French Danse macabre. Edited text and translation: Guy Marchant's Danse Macabre (1485)
  • Woodcuts and comments: Guy Marchant's Danse Macabre (1485)
  • Textual notes: Guy Marchant's Danse Macabre (1485)
  • 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).

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