Imagination and Performing Bodies

Imagination, corps et performance

Elizabeth Claire, Béatrice Delaurenti, Roberto Poma, Koen Vermeir (eds)

Pages: approx. 300 p.
Size:178 x 254 mm
Illustrations:24 b/w, 6 col.

Language(s):English, French
Publication Year:2026

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This edited collection of historical scholarship examines varioius theories of corporeal perception issuing from natural philosophy, medicine, aesthetics, and performance to explore understandings of the material powers of the imagination as a force for action, liberty, invention, contagion and cure.

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BIO

The editors of this collection of essays, Elizabeth Claire, Béatrice Delaurenti, Roberto Poma and Koen Vermeir, have been collaborating on research concerning historical approaches to the powers of the imagination at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris since 2010. Their research is part of the ANR ANTHRAME on the powers of the soul.

Summary

This book of historical scholarship examines theories of corporeal perception at work in natural philosophy, medicine, aesthetics, and performance to explore the material powers of the imagination as a force for action, liberty, invention, contagion and cure.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: Les pouvoirs de l’imagination
Elizabeth CLAIRE, Béatrice DELAURENTI, Roberto POMA, Koen VERMEIR Introduction: The Powers of Imagination
Elizabeth CLAIRE, Béatrice DELAURENTI, Roberto POMA, Koen VERMEIR

Voir du rouge fait saigner. Un débat médical sur le pouvoir de l’imagination (XIIIe - XVe siècle)
Béatrice DELAURENTI

On Imagination and Fantasy in the Early Modern Writings, Commentaries, Translations, and Editions of Walther Herrmann Ryff (Rivius)
Hans Joachim DETHLEFS

Girolamo Mercuriale et la veuve : soigner la femme nonobstant la privation de la compagnie de l’homme
Concetta PENNUTO

Pouvoirs, maladies et caprices. L’imagination maternelle aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles
Sofia ZUCCOLI

Imitation of Faith, Materiality, Imagination, and Belief in Paracelsus’s Late Writing on the St Vitus’ Dance
Lindsey DRURY

Des morts qui imaginent les vivants (pour les tuer ou les faire tuer). L’imagination cadavérique dans la philosophie naturelle germanique de l’époque moderne
Francesco Paolo DE CEGLIA

Théâtre et imagination au XVIIIe siècle : de l’auteur au spectateur
Thibaut JULIAN

An Archaeology of the Notion of Dancing Mania: Of Tunisian Women, and Other Stories
Alessandro ARCANGELI