Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Epigraph
Contents
Preface to the Revised Edition
Physical Eloquence and Persuasion
The Critique of Reconstruction
Quattrocento Renaissance Dance as an Objectifying Activity of Self-Consciousness
Courtly versus Bourgeois Values
Nature
Work
Treatises
Dance and Literature
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The Mythological Intertext: Language
A. The Rhetorical Code
B. Rhetorical Charm and Emotion as Urbanity
Chapter 3 The Sociological Intertext: Courtesy

A. Dance as a "Theoretical" Practice of Propriety: Tuccaro
B. The Reverence as an Aleatory Intertext
C. The Courtesy Book as a Genre
Chapter 4 The Pedagogical Intertext: Precepts
A. The Pose as Intertext for the Basse Danse
B. The Gestural Code as Intertext for the Gaillard
C. Measure as a Practical Dancing Term: "fantasmata"
Chapter 5 The Political Intertext: Civil Conversatione (Social Intercourse)
A. The Interpretant
B. The Strategy of Civil Conversatione
C. Conclusion(s)
Bibliography
Index