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The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. Volume 5: Tumbling into the Twentieth Century
Jan M. Ziolkowski 
Prof. Ziolkowski also featured in a podcast for Medievalists.net, called the Medieval Podcast hosted by Danièle Cybulskie. To listen to this podcast for free, visit here.
A lifetime’s knowledge has been poured into these pages with passion and dedication, and the reader feels, and shares, the author’s enthusiasm along the Juggler’s journey from the Middle Ages to the present. From medieval French manuscripts we follow the tale through early modern religious literature, post-Romantic editorial endeavours, anthologies of national literature and children’s fiction, to modern adaptations in ballet, opera, and the visual arts. Such wide-ranging enterprise is matched by a fluent, witty narrative which succeeds in making complex terminology and concepts accessible to non-specialist readers. As such, the work is a major achievement.
—Prof. Barbara Ravelhofer, Durham University
Funny, erudite, compelling, The Juggler of Notre Dame stretches every boundary of what an academic book is. It has given me—and will give all its readers—further permission to extend the definition of the scholarly book. Imaginative, well-researched, genre-bending, this book makes multiple contributions to the fields of medieval history, philology, art history, performance studies, reception theory, and medievalism.
—Prof. Kathryn Rudy, University of St Andrews
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.
Jan 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. In this volume Jan Ziolkowski follows the juggler of Notre Dame as he cavorts through new media, including radio, television, and film, becoming closely associated with Christmas and embedded in children’s literature.
Presented 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.
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The Juggler of Notre Dame comprises six volumes: Vol. 1: The Middle Ages Vol. 2: Medieval Meets Medievalism Vol. 3: The American Middle Ages Vol. 4: Picture That: Making a Show of the Jongleur Vol. 5: Tumbling into the Twentieth Century Vol. 6: War and Peace, Sex and Violence Click here to purchase all six volumes of The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity at a discounted rate. |
The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. Volume 5: Tumbling into the Twentieth Century
Jan M. Ziolkowski | October 2018
408 | 267 colour illustrations | 7" x 10" (178 x 254 mm)
ISBN Paperback: 9781783745340
ISBN Hardback: 9781783745357
ISBN Digital (PDF): 9781783745364
ISBN Digital ebook (epub): 9781783745371
ISBN Digital ebook (mobi): 9781783745388
ISBN Digital (XML): 9781783745739
DOI: 10.11647/OBP.0148
Categories: BIC: ACK (History of art: Byzantine and Medieval art c. 500 CE to c. 1400), JFHF (Folklore, myths and legends), AP (Film, TV and radio), D (Literature and literary studies), ACX (History of art and design styles: from c. 1900), HBTB (Social and cultural history); BISAC: LIT011000 (LITERARY CRITICISM/Medieval), D (Literature and literary studies), HIS037080 (HISTORY/Modern/20th century), ART035000 (ART subjects and Themes/ Religious), ART015110 (ART / History / Contemporary (1945-))
Contents
Note to the Reader1. Juggling across Print
Printed Books as Pseudomanuscripts
Image-Makers Go Mainstream
Missal Attack
Handwriting the Medieval
Typing a Translation
Medieval French for Amateurs
A One-Novel French Novelist
French Language-Study
2. Juggling across New Media
Making a Spectacle of Miracle
Sister Beatrice
Sister Angelica
Audio Recording
Silent Film
Charlie Chaplin: Tramp Meets Tumbler
3. Juggling across Faiths
The Ecumenical Juggler
The Hasidic Whistle-Blower
The Jewish Jongleur
The Catholic Juggler
The Juggler and the Paulines
Two Bills: Buckley Jr. and Bennett
The Lyric Juggler and Patrick Kavanagh
"The Chapel at Mountain State Mental Hospital”
4. The Yuletide Juggler
Easter Tumbling
The Commercial Aesthetic of "Ye Olde”
Noel Juggling: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
The Juggler in Holiday Books and Cards
Amateur Theater
Mass Radio
Mid-Century Medieval US Television
Postwar Britain
The French Connection
Juggler Film
Juggler Christmas Books Live On
Related Stories of the Season
5. Children’s Juggler and Child Juggler
Suitable for Children
Downsizing the Juggler
American Children’s Literature
European Children’s Literature
Global Children’s Entertainment
Folktale or Faketale?
Tomie dePaola’s The Clown of God
Notes
Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index
© 2018 Jan M. Ziolkowski
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