sickness, death, and dance in the spectrum of medieval thought

Bachelorarbeit Bachelorstudium Tanz: Bühnentanz/Perf./Tanzpäd RA 033 147

ABSTRACT: Sickness and death affected the perception of the human body in the Middle Ages in Europe, guided by the ideological and physical contexts. On this account, Christianism as the most influential religion at the time had a heavy influence on individual and collective ethics and beliefs. Nevertheless, there were different and contrasting approaches within Christianism to the body and to the physical reality of the time. The work from the Beguines (an order of spiritual women who were independent from the institutional ecclesiastical authority) are used for this research. Furthermore, plagues and epidemics will be taken into account as a triggering and shaping event in relation to death. Digging deeper into the development of the symbolic relation between dance and death in the Macabre Danse and the configuration and possible causation theories of dance epidemics between the 11th and 16th century. For all the previous topics mentioned, art works such as paintings and poems are used to approach the wide meaning of medieval dance.

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