Dancing on the Threshold
A Cultural Concept for Conditions of Being Far from Salvation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5124403 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gregor Rohmann (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contributions to the History of Concepts (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1807-9326 • E-ISSN: 1874-656X |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/choc.2015.100204 |
| OpenAlex | W2606215331 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
“Dancing mania” and “St. Vitus dance” were culturally formed illness concepts that enabled late medieval people in the Rhine area to act out states of liminality. The semiotics of these trace back to ancient Platonic cosmology, which had been transmitted into medieval theology by late antique Neoplatonism. In this article the iteration of these motifs especially through the early and high Middle Ages is scrutinized. When “dancing mania” emerged in the fourteenth century it was thus neither an early case of mass hysteria nor a particular form of religious deviance, as is still assumed frequently
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Antique · Art · Dance · Epistemology · Liminality · Literature · Middle Ages · Semiotics · Decadence, Literature, and Society · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · History of Medicine Studies · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2022 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |