John Lydgate, "The Dance of Death", and its model, the French "Danse Macabre"

“[...], 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." John Lydgate, the Dance of Death, and Its - Davidson, Clifford_Oosterwijk, Sophie_ Contents Preface Figures Biographical Information Chapter 1 Introduction The Dance of Paul’s Iconographic Representations of Death The Dance of Death and the Popular Imagination The Role of Death in Life A Topical and Adaptable Motif The Origins of the Dance of Death The Danse Macabre Mural in Paris Manuscripts and Printed Texts Lydgate’s Dance of Death: Manuscripts Manuscripts of the A-Group Manuscripts of the B-Group Lydgate’s Dance of Death: Printed Texts The French Danse Macabre: Manuscripts Guy Marchant’s Editions of 1485 and 1486 Editorial Principles Part 1 John Lydgate’s Dance of Death Chapter 2 Edited Texts: John Lydgate’s Dance of Death Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Selden Supra 53 London, British Library, MS. Lansdowne 699 Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce BB.53 (Fakes edition) Chapter 3 Textual Notes: John Lydgate’s Dance of Death A-Group (Bodleian Library, MS. Selden Supra 53) B-Group (British Library, MS. Lansdowne 699) Textual Notes to Bodleian Library, Douce BB.53 Chapter 4 Critical Notes: John Lydgate’s Dance of Death Stanzas Only in the B-Group, Following the Order of MS. Lansdowne 699 Part 2 The French Danse Macabre Chapter 5 Edited Text and Translation: Guy Marchant’s Danse Macabre (1485) Chapter 6 Woodcuts and Comments: Guy Marchant’s Danse Macabre (1485) Chapter 7 Textual Notes: Guy Marchant’s Danse Macabre (1485) Chapter 8 Critical Notes: Guy Marchant’s Danse Macabre (1485) Appendix Transcription of the “Chambéry roll,” a French Dramatized Danse Macabre Text of the Late Fourteenth or Early Fifteenth Century (Collection Claudius Bouvier, Archives départementales de Savoie, Chambéry, France) Bibliography Glossary "This edition of John Lydgate's Dance of Death offers a detailed comparison of the different text versions, a new scholarly edition and translation of Guy Marchant's 1485 French Danse Macabre text, and an art-historical analysis of its woodcut illustrations. It addresses the cultural context and historical circumstances of Lydgate's poem and its model, the mural of 1424-25 with accompanying French poem in Paris, as well as their precursors, notably the Vado mori poems and the Legend of the Three Living and the Three Dead. It discusses authorship, the personification and vizualisation of Death, and the wider dissemination of the Dance. The edited texts include commentaries, notes, and a glossary"-- Provided by publisher