Performing the Renaissance Body
Title | Performing the Renaissance Body PDF eBook |
Author | Sidia Fiorato |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 2016-03-21 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 3110464489 |
In the Renaissance period the body emerges as the repository of social and cultural forces and a privileged metaphor for political practices and legal codification. Due to its ambivalent expressive force, it represents the seat and the means for the performance of normative identity and at the same time of alterity. The essays of the collection address the manifold articulations of this topic, demonstrating how the inscription of the body within the discursive spheres of gender identity, sexuality, law, and politics align its materiality with discourses whose effects are themselves material. The aesthetic and performative dimension of law inform the debates on the juridical constitution of authority, as well as its reflection on the formation and the moulding of individual subjectivity. Moreover, the inherently theatrical elements of the law find an analogy in the popular theatre, where juridical practices are represented, challenged, occasionally subverted or created. The works analyzed in the volume, in their ample spectre of topics and contexts aim at demonstrating how in the Renaissance period the body was the privileged focus of the social, legal and cultural imagination.
The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography
Title | The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Franko |
Publisher | Anthem Studies in Theatre and |
Total Pages | 250 |
Release | 2021-11-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781785278013 |
The Dancing Body in Renaissance Choreography is a study of the theory of kinetic theatricality in the western European context. The dancing body of courtly social dance is analyzed in French and Italian dance treatises of the Renaissance through the intertexts of oratorical action, pedagogical discourses of civility and conceptions of value emanating from descriptions of social interaction in courtesy books.
The Body Emblazoned
Title | The Body Emblazoned PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Sawday |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 382 |
Release | 2013-10-16 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1134526423 |
An outstanding piece of scholarship and a fascinating read, The Body Emblazoned is a compelling study of the culture of dissection the English Renaissance, which informed intellectual enquiry in Europe for nearly two hundred years. In this outstanding work, Jonathan Sawday explores the dark, morbid eroticism of the Renaissance anatomy theatre, and relates it to not only the great monuments of Renaissance art, but to the very foundation of the modern idea of knowledge. Though the dazzling displays of the exterior of the body in Renaissance literature and art have long been a subject of enquiry, The Body Emblazoned considers the interior of the body, and what it meant to men and women in early modern culture. A richly interdisciplinary work, The Body Emblazoned re-assesses modern understanding of the literature and culture of the Renaissance and its conceptualization of the body within the domains of the medical and moral, the cultural and political.
The Prince’s Body
Title | The Prince’s Body PDF eBook |
Author | Valeria Finucci |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 284 |
Release | 2015-02-10 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 067472545X |
Using four notorious moments in the life of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga of Mantua, Valeria Finucci explores changing early modern concepts of sexuality, reproduction, beauty, and aging. She deftly marries salacious tales with historical analysis to tell a broader story of Italian Renaissance cultural adjustments and obsessions.
Books of the Body
Title | Books of the Body PDF eBook |
Author | Andrea Carlino |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 281 |
Release | 1999-12-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0226092879 |
We usually see the Renaissance as a marked departure from older traditions, but Renaissance scholars often continued to cling to the teachings of the past. For instance, despite the evidence of their own dissections, which contradicted ancient and medieval texts, Renaissance anatomists continued to teach those outdated views for nearly two centuries. In Books of the Body, Andrea Carlino explores the nature and causes of this intellectual inertia. On the one hand, anatomical practice was constrained by a reverence for classical texts and the belief that the study of anatomy was more properly part of natural philosophy than of medicine. On the other hand, cultural resistance to dissection and dismemberment of the human body, as well as moral and social norms that governed access to cadavers and the ritual of their public display in the anatomy theater, also delayed anatomy's development. A fascinating history of both Renaissance anatomists and the bodies they dissected, this book will interest anyone studying Renaissance science, medicine, art, religion, and society.
Filming and Performing Renaissance History
Title | Filming and Performing Renaissance History PDF eBook |
Author | M. Burnett |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 226 |
Release | 2011-02-08 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0230299423 |
Over the last century, many 16th- and 17th-century events and personalities have been brought before home, cinema, exhibition, festival and theatrical audiences. This collection examines these representations, looking at recent television series, documentaries, pageantry, theatre and popular culture in various cultural and linguistic guises.
Women on the Renaissance Stage
Title | Women on the Renaissance Stage PDF eBook |
Author | Clare McManus |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | 292 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780719062506 |
Through detailed historicized and interdisciplinary readings of the performances of Anna Denmark in the Scottish and English Jacobean Courts, Women on the Renaissance Stage fundamentally reassesses women's relationship to early modern performance. It investigates the staging conditions, practices, and gendering of Denmark's performances, and brings current critical theorizations of race, class, gender, space, and performance to bear on the female court of the early 17th century.