Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

7-2012

Keywords

Saint Clément de Metz, Medieval mystery, Frédéric Duval

Abstract

When the existing edition of a late medieval mystery play is clearly insufficient, but the lone manuscript on which that edition was based no longer exists, what recourse is there for future study of that play? Frédéric Duval proposes an answer to this question in a new edition of a mystery play that narrates visually the twenty-five-year career of the saintly personage popularly cited as Metz’s first bishop. First edited by Charles Abel in 1861, the Mystère de Saint Clément was based on a fifteenth-century manuscript copy that was destroyed in 1944. Despite the loss of the late-medieval version of that text, Duval’s new edition brings together the only surviving textual tools, and considerable editing skill, in order to represent what the lost copy may have looked like.

Publication Title

Speculum – A Journal of Medieval Studies

Volume

87

Issue

3

First Page

864

Last Page

865

Required Publisher's Statement

Speculum / Volume 87 / Issue 03 / July 2012, pp 864-865
Copyright © The Medieval Academy of America 2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0038713412002230 (About DOI), Published online: 08 October 2012

Subjects - Topical (LCSH)

Mysteries and miracle-plays, French French literature--To 1500--History and criticism; French drama--To 1500--History and criticism

Subjects - Names (LCNAF)

Duval, Frédéric, 1972-

Geographic Coverage

France

Genre/Form

reviews (documents)

Type

Text

Language

English

Format

application/pdf

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