Suspended Time and Choreutic Transgression in the Late Medieval Sources
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During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries efforts were made to codify a language of licit dance, by reorganising and controlling gestures and making the boundaries of choral dancing clearer and more systematic in terms of non-interference with sacred space and time. The article analyses documents that deal with the repercussions of transgression in choral dancing on the evolution of performances, and in particular on the suspension of the temporal sphere and on the expansion of dance. I address the subject by comparing exemplaristic and literary sources from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries produced in Western Europe, and especially in France and Italy, i.e. those areas where court dances had developed the most.
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