'Fro Paris to Inglond'? The danse macabre in text and image in late- medieval England

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'Fro Paris to Inglond'? The danse macabre in text and image in late- medieval England

Oosterwijk, S.

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Oosterwijk, S. (2009, June 25). 'Fro Paris to Inglond'? The danse macabre in text and image in late-medieval England. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1887/13873

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C HAPTER 1

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-28- Chapter 1: Of corpses, constables and kings

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Chapter 1: Of corpses, constables and kings -29-

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CORRIGENDA

Since publication of this article I have discovered that Les Saints Innocents in Paris was not a Franciscan convent, as claimed on p. 66 and in some of the danse macabre literature: this error has been rectified in chapter 2. My translation of the verses from Jehan le Fèvre’s poem Respit de la Mort on p. 62 also needs amending to read as follows:

Je fis de Macabré la dance I made the dance of Macabré qui toutes gens maine a sa tresche who leads all people in his train et a la fosse les adresche, and directs them to the grave, qui est leur derraine maison which is their last abode.

Note 48 should read:

See S. Oosterwijk, ‘“The sodeyne vyolence of cruel dethe”: Death and danse macabre iconography on tomb monuments’, Actes du 11e Congrès International d’études sur les Danses macabres et l’art macabre en général (Meslay-le-Grenet, 2003), 209-22, and also the examples ...