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John Lydgate, the Dance of Death, and Its Model, the French Danse Macabre

Beschreibung

"[...], 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."

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2021
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 620g
• ISBN-13: 9789004442597
• ISBN-10: 9004442596
• Artikelnr.: 60668668