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The paper relates that during the Renaissance period, dance acquired a great importance both as a social practice and as an emerging art in the form of ballet. The paper relates that this period is very important in the history of dance because it marked the beginning of women's participation in dancing activities. The paper notes that the choreography of the various types of dances reflected the main ethical principles of the Renaissance society and thus transformed dancing from a merely physical exercise to an artistic practice that was highly educative.

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"During the Renaissance period, dance acquired a great importance both as a social practice and as an emerging art, in the form of ballet. The main dance treatises that appeared during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries by music masters such as Guglielmo Ebreo of Pesaro, Thoinot Arbeau and Fabritio Caroso contained descriptions of the types of social dances and ballets with their respective choreographies, drawings, musical excerpts and dance tablatures. Such treatises like Ebreo of Pesaro's On the Practice or Art of Dancing or Arbeau's Orchesographie are not only guiding manuals for dancing, but also good documentary sources for the ethics, aesthetics and social etiquette specific to the sixteenth century."

Tags:choreography, ballet, social, etiquette, ethics, theaters, art

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Florence in the sixteenth century was characterized by tumultuous violence, instability and political upheavals and serious threats from the Germanic armies of the Holy Roman Empire. The situation was much the same throughout Italy. At the same time, Florence was witnessing an intellectual Renaissance, in the sense that there was a flowering of artistic and scientific talent. However, for the majority of residents at the time, this must have been more than offset by the extreme political violence of the era. As such, a Utopia for any Renaissance Florentine would likely have

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Imagine a Utopia in Renaissance Florence of the sixteenth century. Would the Utopia fit more comfortably into Machiavelli's or Cellini's view of Italy? Justify your opinion, taking both possibilities into consideration. Florence in the sixteenth century was characterized by tumultuous violence, instability and political upheavals and serious threats from the Germanic armies of the Holy Roman Empire. The situation was much the same throughout Italy. At the same time, Florence was witnessing an intellectual Renaissance, in the sense that there was a flowering of artistic and scientific talent. However, for the majority of residents at the time, this must have been more than offset by the extreme political

Tags:florence, machiavelli, cellini

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This paper will discuss the two paintings form the sixteenth century. They will be "Judith with the Head of Holofernes of Attributed",(1537) and "Lucretia of Joos Van Cleve"(1525) Extra requirements: these two works are from the California palace of Legion of Honor in San Francisco, and will described here.

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This paper develops ideas which Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg has developed. The paper describes how Ginzburg came across the trial records of an Italian village miller who was condemned for heresy in 1600, and from these records, he develops a view of the man's life, with a particular emphasis on his religious views. The paper discusses how this man rejected the teaching of the Church, and favored instead a wideranging pantheism. The paper explains that the result was fascinating, but heretical.

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"Historian Carlo Ginzburg came across records of two inquisition trials dating from the late 16th century. These are remarkable documents, because they show a rather common individual, a miller from Northern Italy named Domenica Scandella and nicknamed Menocchio, trying to explain his view of the universe to members of the Holy Inquisition. The reaction of his interlocutors ranged somewhere between fascination and horror (91) as the miller explained a sort of popular pantheism that was the core of his belief system, and they eventually concluded that he should be burned at the stake for his heretical views (127-28). However, his case generated..."

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This paper examines historically social dancing in the 20th century, also called couple dancing. The paper describes the five different types: Modern Waltz, Tango, Viennese Waltz, Slow Foxtrot, and Quickstep, all of which are presently danced the world over both socially as well as in dance sport competitions.

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"Social dancing was derived from the concept of dancing by a couple, usually a man and a lady, in a closed hand. Coming from the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, these dances gained popularity from the standard ballroom dances with diverse rhythms, tempos, and aesthetics. Although all these aspects changed with the change in the social attitudes, the one thing, which remained common through out the history of dancing, is that of the couple dance or the social dances. (Evans 2001)"

Tags:couple, dance, modern, waltz, tango, viennese, slow, foxtrot, quickstep, world, dance, sport, competitions

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This paper looks at the differences between the patterns of Spain and Portugal's conquest and colonization of the New World attributed not to intrinsic differences between nations but to coincidental factors and the concerns of the Portuguese with their 'Old World Empire.'

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"The differing patterns of colonization and exploitation between the powers of Spain and Portugal can be largely attributed to circumstantial and geographical factors encountered. In order to progress to an analysis of the differences visible in the 16th century, the patterns manifest must be disclosed. Firstly, it must be understood that the colonization and exploitation of the New World was largely the affair of the Spanish, following the discovery made by Columbus in 1493. Whilst Portugal, as dictated by the Line of Demarcation, laid claim to the coastline of Brazil, it failed to encourage colonization and conquest to any great extent before the 1530s; thus accounting for the phase 1500-30 being dubbed by McAlister as the "period of neglect." This was instigated not by indolence on the part of the Portuguese, but primarily by the fact that their "Old World Empire" called upon the finite quantities of resources and manpower available to a country with a population estimated at little more than one million inhabitants, and secondarily by the difficulties posed by the environmental features of Brazil itself and the circumstances within which Cabral made his discovery. The Spanish therefore dominated the exploration, conquest and colonization of America during the 16th century, so that by the 1560s the major civilizations of the New World and valuable lands found therein lay beneath an Imperial power. Post 1530, however, the Portuguese sought to exploit the potentials of Brazil more fully - the reasons for their lack of success in contrast to the Spanish encourages a comparative approach in trying to explain the varying patterns of colonization and exploitation found within the Americas during the 16th century. What will emerge is the hypothesis that there were abundant similarities between the Spanish and Portuguese states which far outweighed the differences - indeed the largest difference appeared to be simply, but importantly, one of size. This places pressure upon the historian to seek an explanation to account for the differing patterns to be seen in the New World in terms of the inter-related processes of exploration, conquest and colonization. The answer is to be found in the circumstances, conditions, and contexts faced by the Portuguese and the Spanish. In this light extrinsic factors, often not subject to an initial state manipulation, were responsible for the patterns of colonization and nature of conclusions evident in the Americas."

Tags:colonisation, new, portugal, spain, world, Ferdinand, Isabella, Good, Hope, exploitation

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"The Price Revolution was a major turning point of modern European history. It is characterized as a period of falling wages along with inflation in the sixteenth century that resulted in various changes in the everyday life of Europeans. Not since the Black Death had Europe experienced such a transformation in its economic development and social organization. Predominantly caused by a rapid population increase and importation of precious metals from the New World, the Price Revolution and enclosures severely affected European agriculture, commerce and social structure, which resulted in both positive and negative consequences."

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This paper examines and compares the erotic court dances of the 14th century Javanese culture and today's local folk-dancers, ronggeng. The paper explains that, in addition to expressing the age-old dichotomy between the masculine and feminine principles, Javanese dance is also useful in preserving what the Javanese believed would be lost through colonialism, their culture. The paper claims that the first schools of classical Javanese dance were founded out of a desire to retain and maintain the true Javanese culture, with its Hindu and Buddhist elements.

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"Two sons of a Javanese sultan, both of whom were nationalists, founded a dance school, Kridha Beksa Wirama, in 1918. Moro notes that the school was "groundbreaking" as it was the first effort to make court dance democratic, and less 'feudal.' Its first students were the youth affiliates of Budi Utomo, the first nationalist organization in the region. However, because members in these somewhat avant garde groups were primarily aristocrats, the elite continued to have a hold over the arts. Still, graduates of that school went on to teach in the Taman Siswa schools, a system dating to 1922 that " linked education and experimental pedagogy to the goals of Indonesian nationalism" (Moro, 2004)."

Tags:ronggeng, golek, gambyong

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In this paper, the premise of the polka dance is founded through the historical and technical aspects of the dance that originated in central Europe in the 19th century. The unison of the male/female interaction of the dance involves a set of foot steps and interaction with partners, which provides a deeper senses of cultural unity in its circular patterns. The use of the dance in rural communities in the19th century reveal the way that it is still used to bring together a sense of cultural unity, even in the modern era.

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Tags:dance, polka, europe