In this innovative study, G. Yvonne Kendall situates ORCHESOGRAPHIE, the most widely-known dance manual of Renaissance Europe among contemporary sources from France, Italy, England, and Spain. This manual, penned under the pseudonym Thoinot Arbeau, contains 47 choreographies. Kendall places ORCHESOGRAPHIE in the cultural context of sixteenth-century France by examining Arbeau's life and training, and the lives of many influential men and women who supported dance during the religious struggles of the Reformation. Dr. Kendall calls attention to many details of culture and performance in...