دانلود کتاب El pelegrinage de la vida humana: a Study and Edition

Allegory, as a means of teaching a moral or religious lesson, has been a common form of literature, but has never again reached the heights of popularity that it obtained throughout Europe during the Middle Ages. One has only to think of Dante’s Divina Comedia in Italian, the Roman de la Rose in French, Langland’s Piers Plowman in English, the Razón Feita de Amor in Spanish, and Tristan und Isolde in German to understand the importance of allegorical literature in the development of each country’s literary tradition. An interesting, but obscure work that may be added to this list is Guillaume de Deguileville’s trilogy of Le Pelerinage de la vie humaine, Le Pelerinage de l'ame and Le Pelerinage de Jhesu Christ, written between 1330 and 1358. This work clearly represents the Pan-European fondness for moral and religious allegory and vision literature. Between 1330 and 1515, it was translated eight times into five languages -- Engliah, Dutch, German, Latin, and Spanish.

The purpose of this dissertation is to provide an edition of the Spanish translation, El pelegrinage de la vida, as well as to offer an initial exploration of its history, sources, productions and contents. A survey of the changes, differences and similarities in these translations would be quite helpful in understanding European literary currents and the fifteenth-century book trade, together with the interrelations between printers of various countries, but this type of study is not currently practical because of a lack of modern, critical editions, or even a detailed study of the poems or prose versions in any one of these Languages.