The assembly of gods

Auteur:	Attribué à tort à John Lydgate
Titre:	Convivium deorum; The assembly of the gods; The assembly of gods; The accord of Reason and Sensuality in the fear of death
Date:	XV^e siècle
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Langue:	Anglais
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Forme:	7042 vers
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Incipit:	Reson and sensuallyte compylid by John Lydgat. To alle folkys vertuouse, that gentil ben and amerouse, which love the faire pley notable of the chesse, most delytable…
Explicit:	… and of his pray eke disespeyred. The fourthe povne Next by the povne of thinkyng, so counfortable in al[le] thing, ther stood a povne of gret renoun callyd delectacion.

Manuscrits

Éditions anciennes

A lytyll tratyse named Le assemble de dyeus
[Westminster], Wynkyn de Worde, [vers 1494]
ARLIMA: EA2312 GW: M19596 ISTC: il00405000 USTC: 500740
The assembly of gods
[Westminster], Wynkyn de Worde, [vers 1498]
ARLIMA: EA2313 GW: M19594 ISTC: il00404000
The assembly of gods
[Westminster], [Wynkyn de Worde], [vers 1499-1500]
ARLIMA: EA2314 GW: M19595 ISTC: il00404100

Éditions modernes

The Assembly of Gods: or The Accord of Reason and Sensuality in the Fear of Death, by John Lydgate. Edited from the MSS. with introduction, notes, index of persons and places, and glossary, by Oscar Lovell Triggs, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co. (Early English Text Society. Extra Series, 69), 1896, lxxvi + 116 p. [GB] [IA]
Compte rendu: Frederick Klaeber, dans Modern Language Notes, 12, 1897, p. 116-119.
Édition antérieure:
- The Assembly of Gods: or The Accord of Reason and Sensuality in the Fear of Death, by John Lydgate. Edited from the MSS. with introduction, notes, index of persons and places, and glossary, by Oscar Lovell Triggs, Chicago, University of Chicago Press (English Studies, 1), 1895, lxxvi + 116 p. [GB] [IA]
Lydgate's Reson and Sensuallyte, edited from the Fairfax MS. 16 (Bodleian) and the Additional MS. 29,729 (Brit. Mus.) by Ernst Sieper, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co. (Early English Text Society. Extra Series, 84 et 89), 1901-1903, 2 t., xx + 203, ix + 132 p. [GB: t. 1, t. 2] [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
The Assembly of Gods, edited by Jane Chance, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications, 1999. [www]

Traductions modernes

Études

Bühler, Curt F., « The Assembly of Gods and Christine de Pisan », English Language Notes, 4, 1967, p. 251-254.
Fletcher, Bradford Y., « The textual tradition of The Assembly of Gods », Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 71, 1977, p. 191-194.
Klaeber, Frederick, « Triggs, Oscar Lovell, The Assembly of Gods (book review) », Modern Language Notes, 12, 1897, p. 116-119.
Ringler, William, « The fragment Vertu and The Assemble of Goddes: STC 24844a and 17005-17007a », Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America, 47, 1953, p. 378-380.
Rudolph, Karl, Das Verhältnis der beiden Fassungen, in welchen die "Chanson Garin de Monglane" überliefert ist, nebst einer Untersuchung der "Enfances Garin de Monglane", Marburg, Ehrhardt, 1890, 77 p. [GB] [IA]
Schick, J., « Kleine Lydgate-Studien. I. Reason and Sensuality », Beiblatt zur Anglia, 8, 1897-1898, p. 134-154. [GB: ex. 1, ex. 2] [HT] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]