Writing, Dancing and Performing Death Across Late Medieval Europe

318 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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, Reception, Evidence.

• Reihe: Brill
• ISBN: 9789004734647
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 13.11.2025
• Größe: 241 x 162 mm
• Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV