Translation of the French Danse Macabre poem by Sophie Oosterwijk.
Cover illustration: Death and the Bishop, c.1500, single remaining stained-glass window from a Dance of Death series, church of St. Andrew, Norwich (Norfolk). Photo: Mike Dixon.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Davidson, Clifford, editor. | Oosterwijk, Sophie, editor, translator. | Marchant, Guy. | Lydgate, John, 1370?–1451? Dance of death.
Title: John Lydgate, the Dance of Death, and its model, the French Danse macabre / edited by Clifford Davidson, Sophie Oosterwijk.
Other titles: Dance of Death.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021] | Includes bibliographical references and index. | This book includes: old-spelling texts in Middle English of Lydgate’s poem, which was adapted from French; the French Danse Macabre poem as first printed by the Paris-based publisher Guy Marchant; and a translation of the French Danse Macabre poem in this edition by Sophie Oosterwijk.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020054327 (print) | LCCN 2020054328 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004442597 (hardback ; acid-free paper) | ISBN 9789004442603 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Lydgate, John, 1370?–1451? Dance of death—Criticism, Textual. | Lydgate, John, 1370?–1451? Dance of death—Sources. | Dance of death. | Death in literature. | Death—Poetry.
Classification: LCC PR2034.D363 J64 2021 (print) | LCC PR2034.D363(ebook) | DDC 821/.2—dc23
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