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Book Synopsis“[…], 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."
Trade Review“[…], 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 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.
Table of ContentsPreface 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
