Search results for ""Author Jennifer Nevile""
Indiana University Press Dance Spectacle and the Body Politick 12501750
From the mid-13th to the mid-18th century the ability to dance was an important social skill for men and women. This work presents a picture of dance in society from late medieval period to the middle of the 18th century and shows how dance practices during this period participated in intellectual, artistic, and political cultures of their day.
£52.00
Indiana University Press The Eloquent Body: Dance and Humanist Culture in Fifteenth-Century Italy
"This book adds an entirely new dimension to the consideration of Humanism and Italian culture. It will make a welcome addition to the field of cultural studies by broadening the subject to consider an important source of information that has been previously overlooked." —Timothy McGeeThe Eloquent Body offers a history and analysis of court dancing during the Renaissance, within the context of Italian Humanism. Each chapter addresses different philosophical, social, or intellectual aspects of dance during the 15th century. Some topics include issues of economic class, education, and power; relating dance treatises to the ideals of Humanism and the meaning of the arts; ideas of the body as they relate to elegance, nobility, and ethics; the intellectual history of dance based on contemporaneous readings of Pythagoras and Plato; and a comparison of geometric dance structures to geometric order in Humanist architecture.
£32.40
