Anonymous, The Tumbler/Juggler of Notre Dame - the medieval source story

Albrecht Classen (University of Arizona)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.01: French Writing and Culture: Old French to the Middle Ages , 500-1400.
Vol. editors: Marianne Ailes (University of Bristol), Matthew Siôn Lampitt (University of Bristol), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Dates

First circulation or publication c. 1150

Places

France (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Story

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While a Google search today almost always seems to result in providing the desired information, in the case of the anonymous

Tumbler of Notre Dame

, or

The Juggler of Notre Dame

, or, in Old French,

Del Tumbeor Notre Dame

, the online encyclopedia

Wikipedia

or Google itself are limited to an entry focusing on the work by the French author Anatole France (1844–1924), a religious story he published first in a newspaper in 1890, and then in a collection of religious tales in 1892,

L’Étui de nacre

. There is a brief reference to the medieval source, but that itself is not discussed in any details, as if it were irrelevant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Jongleur_de_Notre_Dame; last accessed on May 28, 2024; neither the French nor the German version offer anything relevant). Granted,…

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Citation: Classen, Albrecht. "The Tumbler/Juggler of Notre Dame - the medieval source story". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 09 June 2024 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=41640, accessed 27 July 2024.]

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