| 1. |  € 70,00 | EAN-13: 9782503528526 D. Maddox
Parisian Confraternity Drama of the Fourteenth Century. The 'Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages'
| Edizione: | Brepols Publishers, 2008 | | Collana: | Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe |
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Parisian Confraternity Drama of the Fourteenth Century
is the first volume of studies devoted solely to the Miracles
de Nostre Dame par personnages. These anonymous plays, found
in a single luxury manuscript, comprise the only major corpus of
dramatic works in French that have survived from the fourteenth
century. They derive from a rich diversity of sources: narrative
miracle accounts, saints lives, epic chansons de
geste, vernacular romances, and history. Each play is preceded
by a richly detailed miniature, some two dozen include a sermon in
prose, and each includes at least one rondel to be sung by the
cortege accompanying the Virgin. They constitute both a collective
demonstration of the fervent late-medieval devotion to the Virgin,
and a substantial archive of contemporary insights into the issues
of power, authority, and influence that struggled for dominance in
fourteenth-century Paris. As this extraordinary collection has, in
its entirety, attracted little critical attention to date, this
volume will be of significant interest to scholars wishing to
explore the plays in their literary context, as well as those
interested in medieval drama, the Marian tradition, and the
role of confraternities in fourteenth-century French
culture.
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