The eloquent body : dance and humanist culture in fifteenth-century Italy / Jennifer Nevile.
Material type: TextPublisher: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: x, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0253344530
- 9780253344533
- 306.48460945
- GV1588.6 .N48 2004
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 306.48460945 NEV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A429447B |
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306.4846 WIL Anthropology and the dance : ten lectures / | 306.4846 WIL Anthropology and human movement : searching for origins / | 306.4846 WIL Anthropology and human movement : searching for origins / | 306.48460945 NEV The eloquent body : dance and humanist culture in fifteenth-century Italy / | 306.4846099623 ALE Dancing from the heart : movement, gender, and Cook Islands globalization / | 306.4848 DYE Only entertainment / | 306.4848 KNO Theatre & interculturalism / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-240) and index.
1. Dance and society -- 2. The dance treatises and humanist ideals -- 3. Eloquent movement - eloquent prose -- 4. Dance and the intellect -- 5. Order and virtue -- App. 1. Transcription and translation of MS from Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Magl. VII 1121, f. 63r-69v / Giovanni Carsaniga -- App. 2. The use of mensuration signs as proportion signs in the dance treatises -- App. 3. Floor track and music of Anello, Ingrata, Pizochara, and Verceppe.
"The 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 fifteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.
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