- Authors:
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A. ARCANGELI
- Title:
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Moral views on dance
- Year:
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2008
- Type of item:
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Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)
- Tipologia ANVUR:
- Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)
- Language:
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Inglese
- Format:
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A Stampa
- Book Title:
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Dance, Spectacle, and the Body Politick, 1250-1750
- Publisher:
- Indiana University Press
- ISBN:
- 978-0-253-21985-5
- Page numbers:
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282-294
- Keyword:
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Renaissance and baroque dance; theology; law; medicine
- Short description of contents:
- The legacy of the Renaissance and baroque era is a complex one. The period witnessed a variety of dancing practices and of cultural responses to them. A moral perspective prevailed and proved influential also within the legal and medical discourses. Each author's social milieu and ideological orientation influenced them to portray dance either as a disorderly behaviour which equated human beings to beasts, or as a noble and edifying practice that inserted them within a political and cosmic order. Similar ambiguity characterized the consideration of dance from the perspectives of health and law. However, its beneficial role as a form of physical exercise was rarely challenged, and any radical attempt to simply ban dancing from the civilized world was destined to fail.
- Product ID:
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41276
- Handle IRIS:
-
11562/317959
- Deposited On:
-
June 19, 2008
- Last Modified:
-
May 22, 2017
- Bibliographic citation:
-
A. ARCANGELI,
Moral views on dance
Dance, Spectacle, and the Body Politick, 1250-1750
,
ed. by J. NEVILE
,
Indiana University Press
,
2008
,
pp. 282-294
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