The Juggler Of Notre Dame And The Medievalizing Of Modernity - 9781783744343

This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 'The Juggler of Notre Dame' tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life.0Jan Ziolkowski tracks the poem from its medieval roots to its rediscovery in late nineteenth-century Paris, before its translation into English in Britain and the United States. The visual influence of the tale on Gothic revivalism and vice versa in America is carefully documented with lavish and inventive illustrations, and Ziolkowski concludes with an examination of the explosion of interest in 'The Juggler of Notre Dame' in the twentieth century and its place in mass culture today.0Presented with great clarity and simplicity, Ziolkowski's work is accessible to the general reader, while its many new discoveries will be valuable to academics in such fields and disciplines as medieval studies, medievalism, philology, literary history, art history, folklore, performance studies, and reception studies.00Vol. 2 ISBN 9781783745074 (hbk.) / 9781783745067 (pbk.)0Vol. 3 ISBN 9781783745227 / 97817837452100Vol. 4 ISBN 9781783745302 / 9781783745296 0Vol. 5 ISBN 9781783745357 / 97817837453400Vol. 6 ISBN 9781783745401 / 9781783745395.

• | Author: Jan M. Ziolkowski
• | Publisher: Open Book Publishers
• | Publication Date: Jun 11, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 406 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1783744340
• | ISBN-13: 9781783744343