Writing, Dancing and Performing Death Across Late Medieval Europe : Texts and Contexts
Overview
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 L glu) of the visual tradition across Europe, from Burgundy to Finland, Death and the Danse Macabre in Late Medieval Art: Dissemination, Reception, Evidence.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9789004734647
- ISBN-10: 9004734643
- Publisher: Brill
- Publish Date: November 2025
- Dimensions: 9.25 x 6.1 x 0.75 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.37 pounds
- Page Count: 306
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