Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Illustrations vi
4. Acknowledgments viii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. The Ethical Age of Dance
7. 1 Disciplinary Foundations 21
8. 2. Festive Culture and the Figurative Regime of Dance 81
9. Part II. Dance and the King’s Body
10. 3. Humanist Enthusiasm in the Age of Charles V 119
11. 4. How Can Dance Be Condemned When the King Dances? 150
12. Part III. The Poetics Turn
13. 5 Italian Mediations 209
14. 6 The Body in Movement. Dance in Philosophía antigua poética (1596) 248
15. Part IV. The Stage Turn
16. 7 Mutations in Court Dance 295
17. 8 González de Salas, Dance Historian and Editor of Bailes 342
18. 9 Counterpoint: A French Poetics of Dance 382
19. Conclusion 409
20. Bibliography 416
21. Index 447