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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 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.
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.
Price: $161.00
Pages: 280
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
08 April 2021
ISBN: 9789004442597
Format: Hardcover
"[…], 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, in: Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture, 7, 4, 2021
"[…] 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, in: Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture, 7, 4, 2021
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.
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.