Description 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.
Open Book Publishers The juggler of notre dame and the medievalizing of modernity: volume 2: medieval meets medievalism, hardcover/jan m. ziolkowski
