"Danse Macabre": the medieval obsession with Death

For this Halloween, I explored the development of the concept of "Dance of Death" or "Danse Macabre" in medieval and modern art and culture.

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0:00 Intro
0:22 The tale of the Maccabee Martyrs
1:09 Remembering death as spiritual practice
1:53 Seikilos Epitaph
2:19 Death in Christianity
2:48 Memento Mori
3:18 The Plague
4:50 The Death dialogues
6:21 Concept of "Danse Macabre"
6:44 Theatrical settings and Halloween
6:59 Musical settings
7:58 Dance of Death in 19th and 20th century music
8:12 The music of Camille Saint-Saëns and poem of Henri Cazalis
8:52 Outro

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SOURCES:

Videos shown:
Camille Saint-Saëns - Danse macabre, WDR Funkhausorchester:    • Saint-Saëns - Danse macabre | WDR Fun...  
Silly Symphony, The Skeleton Dance:    • Silly Symphonies - The Skeleton Dance  

Websites with references about Danse Macabre:
La mort dans l’Art: http://www.lamortdanslart.com/danse/d...
Doden Dans: http://www.dodedans.com/Eindex.htm

Fac-similes:
La dance macabre des SS. innocents de Paris by Maistre Jehan Gerson https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt...
Danse macabre by Antoine Vérard et Maître Jacques de Besançon: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv...

The Black Death, by Rosemary Horrox

The dance of Death in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, by James Clark

Death By Philosophy (Chapter 3 - Democritus), by Ava Chitwood

'Fro Paris to Inglond'? The danse macabre in text and image in late-medieval England, by Suzanne Oosterwijk (Doctoral thesis): https://scholarlypublications.univers...

The bright side of Black Death, by Pat Lee Shipmen https://www.americanscientist.org/art...

Guyot Marchant’s Danse Macabre, by David A. Fein http://www.glossa.fi/mirator/pdf/Fein...

The Dance of Death in Medieval Literature: Some Recent Theories of Its Origin, by James M. Clark

John Lydgate’s version of “Danse Macabre“ text in Middle French with English translation: https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/tex...

“Memento Mori“ Museum of Art and Archaeology - University of Missouri: https://web.archive.org/web/201006060...

Memento mori jewelry: https://www.langantiques.com/universi...