Women, Dance and Parish Religion in England, 1300-1640 (eBook)

Negotiating the Steps of Faith

Lynneth Miller Renberg (Autor)

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2022
268 Seiten
Boydell & Brewer Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80010-805-9 (ISBN)

Infos

A lively exploration of the medieval and early modern attitudes towards dance, as the perception of dancers changed from saints dancing after Christ to cows dancing after the devil.

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A lively exploration of the medieval and early modern attitudes towards dance, as the perception of dancers changed from saints dancing after Christ into cows dancing after the devil.The devil's cows, impudent camels, or damsels animated by the devil: late medieval and early modern authors used these descriptors and more to talk about dancers, particularly women. Yet, dance was not always considered entirely sinful or connected primarily to women: in some early medieval texts, dancers were exhorted to dance to God, arm-in-arm with their neighbors, and parishes were filled with danced expressions of faith. What led to the transformation of dancers from saints dancing after Christ into cows dancing after the devil? Drawing on the evidence from medieval and early modern sermons, and in particular the narratives of the cursed carolers and the dance of Salome, this book explores these changing understandings of dance as they relate to religion, gender, sin, and community within the English parish. In parishes both before and during the English Reformations, dance played an integral role in creating, maintaining, uniting, or fracturing community. But as theological understandings of sacrilege, sin, and proper worship changed, the meanings of dance and gender shifted as well. Redefining dance had tangible ramifications for the men and women of the parish, as new definitions of what it meant to perform one's gender collided with discourses about holiness and transgression, leading to closer scrutiny and monitoring of the bodies of the faithful.

Inhalt

Introduction

1. Reforming and Redefining True Religion
2. Dance and Protecting Sacred Space
3. Dance and Disrupting Sacred Time
4. "Satan Danced in the Person of the Damsel"
5. "In Her Dance She Had No Regard Unto God"
6. Performing Dance, Sin, and Gender

Conclusions

Appendix
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Gender in the Middle Ages
• Reihe/Serie: Gender in the Middle Ages
• Verlagsort: Woodbridge
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Community • Cursed Carolers • Dance and Community • Dance and Holiness • Dance and Sacrilege • Dance and Sin • Dance and Worship • Dance Monitoring • Dance of Salome • Dance Transformation • Early Modern Dance • English parish • English Reformations • Gender and Dance • Medieval Dance • Parish Religion • religious dance • Sermons
• ISBN-10: 1-80010-805-2 / 1800108052
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80010-805-9 / 9781800108059