John Lydgate's dance of death and related works
- Title
- John Lydgate's dance of death and related works / edited by Megan Leigh Cook and Elizaveta Strakhov.
- Published by
- Kalamazoo, Michigan : Published for TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies) in Association with the University of Rochester by Medieval Institute Publications, 2019.
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- Additional authors
- Description
- vii, 195 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.
- Summary
- "This volume brings together new editions of both texts of John Lydgate's fifteenth-century poem, The Dance of Death, with related Middle English verse from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It also includes a new translation of Lydgate's French source, the Danse macabre. Together, these poems showcase the power and versatility of the danse macabre motif, offering a vivid window into life and death in late medieval Europe. In these poems, we see Death itself help readers remember and process the fundamental paradox of death's universality yet irremediable specificity. In vivid, often grotesque, and darkly humorous terms, these poems ponder life's fundamental paradox: while we know that we all must die, we cannot imagine our own death"--
- Series statement
- Middle English texts series
- Uniform title
- Middle English texts (Kalamazoo, Mich.)
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Poetry.
- Call number
- JFF 20-1199
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-191).
- Language (note)
- Poems in Middle English, one French poem with an English translation.
- Title
- John Lydgate's dance of death and related works / edited by Megan Leigh Cook and Elizaveta Strakhov.
- Publisher
- Kalamazoo, Michigan : Published for TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies) in Association with the University of Rochester by Medieval Institute Publications, 2019.
- Type of content
- text
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Series
- Middle English texts series
- Middle English texts (Kalamazoo, Mich.)
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-191).
- Language
- Poems in Middle English, one French poem with an English translation.
- Chronological term
- 1100-1500
- Added author
- Cook, Megan L. (Megan Leigh), 1981- editor.
- Strakhov, Elizaveta, 1984- editor.
- Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? Dance of death.
- LCCN
- 2019034706
- ISBN
- 9781580443807 (paperback)
- 158044380X
- 9781580443814 (hardback)
- 1580443818
- 9781580444088 (pdf)
- Research call number
- JFF 20-1199