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Old French literature --- Purgatory --- -Eschatology --- Future punishment --- Poetry --- Patrick Saint --- -Legends --- -Poetry --- Patrick, --- Pádraigh, --- Patrice, --- Patrik, --- Patrix, --- Patrizio, --- Saint Patrick's Purgatory (Ireland) --- Lough Derg Saint Patrick's Purgatory (Ireland) --- St. Patrick's Purgatory (Ireland)

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Écrit à la fin du XIIe siècle, le Tractatus de purgatorio sancti Patrici a connu un extraordinaire succès dans toute la chrétienté médiévale. Les premières traductions en vers en ancien français datent des années 1190. Au début du XIIIe siècle remonte la première traduction en prose à laquelle s'ajouteront les nombreux remaniements et les récits composés pendant les XIVe-XVe siècles. Les versions en prose présentées ici sont toutes anonymes et inédites : la version la plus ancienne (début du XIIIe siècle) est à la base d'une tradition complexe qui arrive jusqu'en Provence et en Italie. Les autres versions datant du XIVe siècle donnent un aperçu de la vitalité de la légende du voyage dans l'au-delà, vitalité qui, dans le domaine français, se prolongera jusqu'au XVIIIe siècle.

Old French literature --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Manuscripts, French --- Transmission of texts. --- Manuscrits médiévaux --- Manuscrits français --- Transmission de textes --- History --- Histoire --- Patrick, --- Legends. --- St. Patrick's Purgatory (Legend) --- Purgatory --- Saint Patrick's Purgatory (Ireland) --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Patrice, --- Manuscrits médiévaux --- Manuscrits français --- Patrice --- Pádraigh, --- Patrik, --- Patrix, --- Patrizio, --- Lough Derg Saint Patrick's Purgatory (Ireland) --- St. Patrick's Purgatory (Ireland) --- Purgatory - Poetry --- Patrick, - Saint, - 373?-463? - Legends --- Saint Patrick's Purgatory (Ireland) - Poetry --- Patrick, - Saint, - 373?-463?

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In autumn 1397, Viscount Ramon de Perell©đs left the papal palace in Avignon to travel to St Patrick's Purgatory, famous throughout Europe as a gateway to the next world. There, he spent twenty-four hours in an underground cavern, where he claimed to have travelled through the nine fields of Purgatory, accompanied by demons, before entering the Earthly Paradise and catching a glimpse of Heaven. In autumn 1397, Viscount Ramon de Perell©đs, a Catalan nobleman, soldier and diplomat, left the papal palace in Avignon to travel to St Patrick's Purgatory in Donegal, in the northwest of Ireland. St Patrick's Purgatory, an underground cavern on Station Island in Lough Derg, was famous throughout Europe as a gateway to the next world, and the Viscount wanted to ascertain if the soul of his recently deceased friend and master, King John I of Aragon, was, if not in Heaven, then at least in Purgatory. Ramon spent twenty-four hours in the cavern, where he claimed to have travelled through the nine fields of Purgatory, accompanied by demons, before entering the Earthly Paradise and catching a glimpse of Heaven. This book provides a richly annotated translation of Ramon's account of his journeys, both earthly and spiritual. An extensive introduction sets his Viatge al Purgatori in context, examining Ramon's life, the factors that motivated the trip, the history of St Patrick's Purgatory, the literary influences on the account, its historicity, its afterlife and its textual history. The Viatge notably provides important first-hand observations on Gaelic society and customs, by a cosmopolitan traveller with a keen eye for detail, and went on indirectly to inspire Lope de Vega's El mayor prodigio o El purgatorio en vida, and Calder©đn de la Barca's (1600-1681) El purgatorio de San Patricio. Part travelogue, part vision literature, with aspects of hagiography, homily, autobiography, chivalric romance and anthropological essay, the text is a fascinating and entertaining window into a medieval Catalan nobleman's world view.

Purgatory --- Perellós, Ramon, --- Travel --- Saint Patrick's Purgatory (Ireland) --- History --- Sources --- Roda, Ramon, --- Lough Derg Saint Patrick's Purgatory (Ireland) --- St. Patrick's Purgatory (Ireland) --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Diplomats --- Travelers --- Derg, Lough (Donegal, Ireland) --- Avignon. --- Catalan nobleman. --- Donegal. --- Earthly Paradise. --- Heaven. --- St Patrick's Purgatory. --- Viatge al Purgatori. --- Viscount Ramon de Perellós. --- demons. --- diplomat. --- medieval Catalan nobleman. --- next world. --- northwest of Ireland. --- papal palace. --- soldier.