Writing, Dancing and Performing Death Across Late Medieval Europe : Texts and Contexts / edited by Catherine Léglu, Sophie Oosterwijk, and Laurent Ungeheuer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Léglu, Catherine, editor.

Oosterwijk, Sophie, editor.

Ungeheuer, Laurent, editor.

Series:

Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Literature and Cultural Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Texts and Contexts

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Our understanding of the medieval Danse macabre is changing with the recent discoveries of a theatrical script from Savoy, and of a related Castilian poem. This collection of texts from the Burgundian realm, France and Savoy, England, Castile-Aragon and the Empire, also contains critical essays that examine these texts and contexts from the fourteenth to the late fifteenth centuries. This volume re-examines the development and impact of the Danse macabre within broader considerations of performance and poetry that focus on Death as a protagonist. It includes texts never before studied or translated and moves beyond the traditional focus on Paris and London to reassess the wide dissemination of this tradition. The volume complements a collection of studies by the same editors (Oosterwijk, Ungeheuer and Léglu) of the visual tradition across Europe, from Burgundy to Finland, Death and the Danse Macabre in Late Medieval Art: Dissemination and Reception .

Contents:

Front Cover

‎Half-Title Page

‎Title Page

‎Copyright Page

‎Contents

‎Acknowledgements

‎Figures

‎Notes on Contributors

‎Introduction (Léglu, Oosterwijk and Ungeheuer)

‎The Danse Macabre at the Cemetery of Saints-Innocents in Paris

‎Bibliography

‎Part 1. Dissemination

‎Chapter 1. The Chambéry Theatre Roll (Fréchet (transcription) and Léglu (translation))

‎Chapter 2. A Core Document for Research on the Upper-German Totentanz in Quatrains: MS Cpg 314 and the OBD-H1 Text (Layet)

‎Chapter 3. The OBD-H1 Text (MS Cpg 314, Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Germany) (Layet (edition)

translation by Bertram OSB † (Latin) and Oosterwijk (German), with amendments to the transcription and Latin translation by Freeth)

‎Chapter 4. The Dança General de la Muerte: New Perspectives from MS Parma 2666 (Marin Gallo)

‎Chapter 5. The Spanish Dança General: Text and Translation (Marin Gallo)

‎Part 2. Offshoots and Parallels

‎Chapter 6. Learning to Dance with Death in Middle English Drama (Claridge)

‎Chapter 7. Imagining Death in Late Medieval Occitania: Dance, the Archer and Lady Death (Léglu)

‎Chapter 8. Lo Cocir de la Mort: Anxiety about Death (c.1324-1355) (Edition by Fedi

translation by Léglu)

‎Chapter 9. Le Mors de la Pomme: A Further Study of the Copy by Jean Miélot (Paris, BnF, MS fr. 17001) (Transcription, introduction and notes by Timelli

‎Chapter 10. Anthonis de Roovere's Van der Mollenfeeste (On the Feast of the Moles) (Oosterman

Strietman with Oosterwijk)

‎Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789004743052

OCLC:

1549520920

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004743052 DOI