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A Cultural history of gesture. with an introduction by Sir Keith Thomas. edited by Jan Bremmer and Herman Roodenburg

Bremmer, Jan Nicolaas (1944-...) Roodenburg, Herman (1951-...) 1992

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Title:
A Cultural history of gesture. with an introduction by Sir Keith Thomas. edited by Jan Bremmer and Herman Roodenburg
Author: Bremmer, Jan Nicolaas (1944-...);
Roodenburg, Herman (1951-...)
Subjects: Gesture -- History;
Gestes -- Histoire
Description: Based on presentations made at a colloquium held in Utrecht in the autumn of 1989
Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-260) and indexes.
Walking, standing, and sitting in ancient Greek culture / Jan Bremmer Gestures and conventions : the gestures of Roman actors and orators / Fritz Graf The rationale of gestures in the West : third to thirteenth centuries / Jean-Claude Schmitt The language of gesture in early modern Italy / Peter Burke The Renaissance elbow / Joaneath Spicer The order of gestures : a social history of sensibilities under the Ancien Régime in France / Robert Muchembled The 'hand of friendship' : shaking hands and other gestures in the Dutch Republic / Herman Roodenburg Gesture, ritual, and social order in sixteenth- to eighteenth-century Poland / Maria Bogucka The kiss sacred and profane : reflections on a cross-cultural confrontation / Willem Frijhoff Gestured masculinity : body and sociability in rural Andalusia / Henk Driessen Gestures in history : a select bibliography / Jan Bremmer and Herman Roodenburg
Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1992
Creation Date: 1992
Format: xiv, 268 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Language: English

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