1st Edition
The Cursed Carolers in Context
The tale of the Kölbigk dancers: transmissions, translations, and themes
LYNNETH MILLER RENBERG AND BRADLEY PHILLIS
Part 1. Setting the stage
1. Kinesic analysis: a theoretical approach to reading bodily movement in literature
REBECCA STRAPLE-SOVERS
2. Prefacing the marvelous: dance in popular medieval French and English literature
CLINT MORRISON, JR. AND SARAH B. RUDE
Part 2. Carolers and contexts
3. The cursed carolers as crusaders in twelfth-century Flanders
BRADLEY PHILLIS
4. “Desturné en us de secularité”?: authority and narrative framing in the cursed dancers episode of the Manuel des Péchés
KRISTA A. MURCHISON
5. Priests, cursed carolers, and pastoral care in Handlyng Synne , Of Shrifte and Penance , and Instructions to His Son
LYNNETH MILLER RENBERG
6. The tale of the Kölbigk dancers in Goscelin’s Legend of St. Edith and the Wilton Chronicle
LAURA CLARK
7. The cursed carolers in medieval and early modern Scandinavia
SHAUN F. D. HUGHES
Part 3. Dancing on
8. Dancing out the pest: afterlives of medieval dance plague narratives in nineteenth-century Münchner Schäfflertanz discourse
TAMARA HAUSER
Epilogue: dancing the spaces between
CANDICE SALYERS
Biography
Lynneth Miller Renberg is Assistant Professor of History at Anderson University, USA.
Bradley Phillis is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Southern Mississippi, USA.
