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The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. Volume 5: Tumbling into the Twentieth Century

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...

Keywords:: folklore, legends, literature and literary studies, history of design styles, history of art, TV, literary criticism, myths, film, social and cultural history, modern history, radio

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Humanities / History / Topical / Art History

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Material Type:: Open (Access) Textbook
Date Added to MERLOT:: November 1, 2018
Date Modified in MERLOT:: June 20, 2019
Author:: Jan M. Ziolkowski, Harvard University
Submitter:: Open Book Publishers
Primary Audience:: College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional
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