Abstract

Scholars of Early Modern dance treatises have long recognized the crucial connection in these texts between exterior manifestations of courtly behavior and interior affects. The dancing courtier is to display a virtuosic correspondence between physical and subjective grace, elegance, and virtue. Among the historical sources for this correlation are overlooked texts from twelfth-century reform movements within European monasticism. This essay examines one such treatise, Hugh of St. Victor’s De institutione novitiorum (On the Instruction of Novices), as a key source for gestural theory, representing the elite monastic body as a prototype of the Early Modern courtier.

摘要

早期现代舞蹈专着的学者们早就认识到这些文本在礼节行为的外在表现与内在情感之间的关键联系。舞蹈朝臣要表现出身体和主观的优雅，优雅和美德之间的艺术上的对应。在这种相关性的历史渊源中，有欧洲修道院主义的十二世纪改革运动所忽略的文本。本文研究了这样的论文，即《圣维克多的新手教学法》的休（《新手教学》），作为手势理论的主要来源，代表了修道士的精英，是早期近代朝臣的原型。