The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity Volume 1: The Middle Ages

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 jo...

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Main Author: Ziolkowski, Jan M. (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Open Book Publishers 2018
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