Dance as text : ideologies of the baroque body / by Franko, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Preface to the First Edition; Preface; Acknowledgments; Illustrations; Abbreviations; Prologue: Constructing the Baroque Body; Chapter One: Writing Dancing,1573; Chapter Two: Ut Vox Corpus,1581; Chapter Three: Interlude: Montaigne's Dance,1580s; Chapter Four: Political Erotics of Burlesque Ballet,1624-1627; Chapter Five: Molière and Textual Closure: Comedy-Ballet,1661-1670; Epilogue: Repeatability, Reconstruction, and Beyond; Appendix One: Notes on Characters of Dance…”
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A history of curiosity : the theory of travel, 1550-1800 / by Stagl, Justin

Table of Contents: “…Imagines mundi : allegories of the continents in the Baroque and the Enlightenment --…”
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Dressing the past /

Table of Contents: “…Tailored criticism: the use of renaissance and baroque garments as sources of information /…”
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Atlantic perspectives : places, spirits and heritage /

Table of Contents: “…Eight movements and a coda on the baroque Atlantic /…”
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Collecting across cultures : material exchanges in the early modern Atlantic world /

Table of Contents: “…Science, Art, and Collecting in the Spanish Baroque /…”
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Organ works. by Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750

“…Historical anthology of music. Period V., The baroque (late). Category F, Johann Sebastian Bach. …”

Death is a festival : funeral rites and rebellion in nineteenth-century Brazil / by Reis, João José

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the Cemiterada -- Setting of the Cemiterada -- Brotherhoods and baroque Catholicism -- The hour of death: means of dying well -- The hour of the dead: household funeral rites -- The pageantry of death: traditional funeral corteges -- Sacred space of the dead: the place of burial -- Bound for glory: funeral masses and divine advocates -- Civilizing customs (I): the medicalization of death -- Civilizing customs (II): legislated death -- Commercializing death: Provincial Law 17 -- The resistance against the cemetery -- Epilogue: after the revolt -- Appendix: Death as a business: funerary income and expenses.…”
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A core collection in dance /

Table of Contents: “…Western European Renaissance and Baroque Dance. Ballet. Modern and Postmodern Dance. …”

Space after Deleuze / by Saldanha, Arun

Table of Contents: “…AffectsBodies-without-organs; Faciality; Cities; Planes; Networks; Ghettos; Any-spaces-whatever; Events; CHAPTER FOUR Maps; Intensity; Virtual; Difference; Egg; Cartographies; Folding; Expressionism; Baroque; Time; REFERENCES; INDEX.…”
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The body in balance : humoral medicines in practice /

Table of Contents: “…-- Fluxes and stagnations: a physician's perception and treatment of humours in baroque ladies -- When money became a humour -- Were the four humours fundamental to medieval Islamic medical practice? …”
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Survey of historic costume : a history of Western dress / by Tortora, Phyllis G.

Table of Contents: “…-A.D. 400 -- The Middle Ages c. 300-1500: The early Middle Ages c. 300-1300 ; The late Middle Ages c. 1300-1500 -- The Renaissance c. 1400-1600: The Italian Renaissance c. 1400-1600 ; The northern Renaissance c. 1500-1600 -- Baroque and rococo c. 1600-1800: The seventeenth century 1600-1700 ; The eighteenth century 1700-1790 -- The nineteenth century 1800-1900: The Directoire period and the Empire period 1790-1820 ; The Romantic period 1820-1850 ; The crinoline period 1850-1869 ; The bustle period and the nineties 1870-1900 -- From the twentieth to the twenty-first century 1900-2008: The Edwardian period and World War I 1900-1920 ; The twenties, thirties, and World War II 1920-1947 ; The new look : fashion conformity prevails 1947-1960 ; The sixties and seventies : style tribes emerge 1960-1980 ; The eighties, the nineties, and the twenty-first century 1980-2008.…”

Blood and Kinship : Matter for Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present.

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 7 -- Descent and Alliance: Cultural Meanings of Blood in the BaroqueChapter 8 -- Kinship, Blood, and the Emergence of the Racial Nation in the French Atlantic World, 1600-1789; Chapter 9 -- Class Dimensions of Blood, Kinship, and Race in Brittany, 1780-1880; Chapter 10 -- Nazi Anti-Semitism and the Question of Jewish Blood -- Chapter 11 -- Biosecuritization: The Quest for Synthetic Blood and the Taming of Kinship; Chapter 12 -- Articulating Blood and Kinship in Biomedical Contexts in Contemporary Britain and Malaysia.…”
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Ringling : the Florida years, 1911-1936 / by Weeks, David Chapin

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Cultural transfer reconsidered : transnational perspectives, translation processes, Scandinavian and postcolonial challenges /

Table of Contents: “…Cultural Transfer and Intertextuality: Yambo Ouologuem and the Dynamics of Literary and Cultural Rewriting in the (Post)Colonial African Context / Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink -- The Cultural Transfer of Genre: The Case of Aphorism in Déwé Gorodé (New Caledonia), Par les temps qui courent / Miriam Lay Brander / Textual Transfers and the Poetics of Translation: Literature in Translation, Translation in Literature / Steen Bille Jørgensen -- Perspectives: Types of Distance and Proximity -- Cultural Transfer and Its Complexities: A Study on Transnational and Transhistorical Mobilities of the Baroque / Walter Moser -- From Transferts culturels to Transferências culturais: Interdisciplinary and Methodical Dynamics and Translations of the Concept in the Brazilian Context / Wiebke Röben de Alencar Xavier -- Relations in a Cultural Triangle: Aspects of Cultural Mediation between Germany, France, and Scandinavia / Karin Hoff, Anna Sandberg and Udo Schöning ; Translated by Sabina Fazli.…”
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The courting of Marcus Dupree / by Morris, Willie

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Dance on its own terms : histories and methodologies /

Table of Contents: “…La Cosmografia del Minor Mondo: Recovering Dance Theory to Create Todayâ€?s Baroque Practice""; ""7. Touchstones of Tradition and Innovation: Pas de Deux by Petipa, Balanchine and Forsythe""; ""8. …”
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The Routledge handbook of material culture in early modern Europe /

Table of Contents: “…: Early modern masculinities and the new materialisms / Amanda Bailey -- In praise of clean linen: laundering humours on the early modern English stage / Natasha Korda and Eleanor Lowe -- Early modern religious objects and materialities of belief / Suzanna Ivanič -- The material culture of piety in the Italian Renaissance: re-touching the rosary / Irene Galandra Cooper and Mary Laven -- Early modern spaces and olfactory traces / David Karmon and Christy Anderson -- Musical sound and material culture / Flora Dennis -- Lasting impressions of the common woodcut / Patricia Fumerton and Megan E. Palmer -- Baroque sculpture: materiality and the question of movement / Nigel Llewellyn -- Rights of privacy in early modern English households / Lena Cowen Orlin -- Antwerp and the 'material Renaissance': exploring the social and economic significance of crystal glass and majolica in the sixteenth century / Inneke Baatsen, Bruno Blondé and Carolien De Staelen -- I say 'shard', you say 'sherd': contrasting and complementary approaches to a piece of early modern 'Venice glass' / Angela McShane and Nigel Jeffries.…”

Fashion through history : costumes, symbols, communication.

Table of Contents: “…Gabriele D'AnnunzioThe Krause-Knot; The Tropical Belle Époque's Fashion in the Social Articles of João do Rio; The Burlesque Boom; The Mirabilia Romae by Valentino; Between Fashion, Art and Photography; The Art of Costume; The Marmoreal Polychrome and Draperies in the Roman Religious Sculpture of the Seventeenth Century; Hollywood on the Tiber; Shapes and Colors of the Baroque Theatre of the Siglo De Oro; Dress as a Reflection of Social Identity and Differentiation in the Soviet Cinema of the 1950s-1980s; Postface.…”
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The cloak of dreams : Chinese fairy tales / by Balázs, Béla, 1884-1949

The Archaeology of Death in Post-medieval Europe. by Tarlow, Sarah

Table of Contents: “…-- 9.10 Exploring the Manipulation of Remains in Landscape Cemeteries -- References -- 10 Burial Customs in the Northern Ostrobothnian Region (Finland) from the Late Medieval Period to th -- Introduction -- 10.1 Burial Customs at Ii Hamina -- 10.2 Furnishing of the Coffins in Early Modern Ostrobothnia -- Archaeological Results -- 10.3 Ethnographic References to Plants in Funeral Practices -- 10.4 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 11 Death and Burial in Post-medieval Prague -- Introduction -- 11.1 The Burial Rite in Baroque Bohemia -- 11.2 Modern Period Cemeteries in Bohemia -- 11.3 Prague Castle and the Church of St John the Baptist -- 11.4 Analysis of the Grave Goods -- 11.5 Typology of Grave Goods -- 11.6 Burial Customs in Bohemia after the Thirty Years' War: A Summary -- Sources -- References -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Index.…”
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