{"product_id":"john-lydgate-the-dance-of-death-and-its-model-the-french-danse-macabre-9789004442597","title":"John Lydgate, The Dance of Death, and its model, the French Danse Macabre","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[…], 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[…], 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210810286423,"sku":"9789004442597","price":116.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/john-lydgate-the-dance-of-death-and-its-model-the-french-danse-macabre-9789004442597","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}