Dear Bas,
I found some literature about the 'Ubi sunt' passage in
Takami Matsuda, _Death and Purgatory in Middle English Didactic
Poetry_ (Cambridge: Brewer, 1997), p. 137n.
Étienne Gilson, 'De la Bible à François Villon', in _Les Idées et
les lettres_ (Paris: J. Vrin, 1932), pp. 9-38.
J. E. Cross, 'Ubi Sunt Passages in Old English: Sources and
Relationships', _Vetenskaps-Societetens i Lund Årsbok_ (1956), 25-44.
Mariantonia Liborio, 'Contributi alla storia dell"Ubi sunt"',
_Cultura neolatina_, 20 (1960), 141-209.
Mary E. Quint, 'The Ubi Sunt: Form, Theme, and Tradition', 2 vols.
(unpublished doctoral dissertation, Arisona State University, 1981)
Takami Matsuda, 'The Ubi Sunt Passages in Middle English Literature',
_Studies in English Literature_ (Tokyo), (1983) English Number, 65-83.
I hope this helps.
BTW, although I've joined this list for a while, I haven't
introduced myself (Sorry). I am doing the first year of
PhD at Leeds on a fourteenth century sermon collection from
York
Yuichi Akae
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> Dear listmembers,
>
> Some time ago I asked if anyone could help me with the ubi sunt-theme.
> 'Where are they now? Once they were great people, but where are they now? I
> thought this theme started with Bernardus de Clairveaux, but I was wrong. It
> was Bernard of Morlay, followed by Jacopone van Todi, Eustache Deschamps,
> Jean Gerson, and Olivier de la Marche (who wrote about the dead in his
> Parement et triumphe des dames). I have these names, is there a study about
> this kind of literature?
>
> Bas Jongenelen
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