LES VERSIONS EN PROSE DU PURGATOIRE DE SAINT PATRICE EN ANCIEN FRANÇAIS
DI FEBO MARTINA -ED-
The success of the Tractatus de purgatorio sancti Patrici (late 12th c.) throughout medieval Christendom explains its numerous prose versions in Old French (13th-15th c.). Those presented here, all anonymous and hitherto unpublished, testify to the enduring vitality of the legend of the journey into the beyond.