John Lydgate's 'Dance of Death' and Related Works [English, Middle]

Book Overview

This volume joins new editions of both texts of John Lydgate's The Dance of Death, related Middle English verse, and a new translation of Lydgate's French source, the Danse macabre. Together these poems showcase the power of the danse macabre motif, offering a window into life and death in late medieval Europe. 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English, Middle
• ISBN: 1580443818
• ISBN13: 9781580443814
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.0" x 10.2"