Dance and Punishment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20458241 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alessandro Arcangeli (0000-0002-7730-8682, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 30 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dance Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0264-2875 • E-ISSN: 1750-0095 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1290653 |
| OpenAlex | W2069529450 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
The medieval sermon often included a number of short stories among other rhetorical devices and means of persuasion. The classical and clerical traditions called such narratives exempla. As well as entertaining the listeners, avoiding boredom and focusing their attention, they had a specific and important function in the strategies adopted by the preachers to prove their cases: that is to say to exemplify a piece of moral instruction by providing an illustrative example more or less realistic in which behaviour was either clearly rewarded or clearly punished. In this context, dance in various form is the subject of several narratives. The purpose of the present article is to sketch the tradition of dance exempla, and to comment on the image of dance promoted by these narratives in the society of the time. Inevitably, the most frequent element is a monastic-penitential condemnation of worldly enjoyment. However different connotations are sometimes introduced; and the means by which the narrative patterns are used to elicit condemnation are often significant in themselves.1
Art · Art history · Dance · Punishment (psychology) · Visual arts · Medieval Literature and History · Psychology · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.62 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2024 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |