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"[...], 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."
Contents
Preface
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
