Platonic Theology, and: Platonic Theology, and: Platonic Theology (review)
refreshing alternative to current post-Foucauldian approaches, which tend to describe women as passive and suppressed by male instructors and patrons. Nevile has produced one of the most vibrant accounts of fifteenth-century choreographic practice in recent literature. Her outstanding book combines practical dance experience with detailed archival work, and a new approach which links the origins of dance-as-literature to humanism in Italy, an area which has so far been virtually absent from the scholarly discourse. The Eloquent Body will, it is hoped, not only have an impact on dance research but also on future academic writing about humanism. BARBARA RAVELHOFER University of Durham