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11 avril 2023
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Malcolm Walsby, « Banning dancing in late 16th-century Rennes », Renaissances : archives et découvertes, ID : 10.58079/vo0a
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Dancing was a controversial issue during the sixteenth century. On the one hand, the development of music printing meant that the number of accessible scores that encouraged people to engage in branles, gavottes and other dances rose exponentially. On the other Protestants, and particularly Calvinists, saw dancing as facilitating debauchery. In his treatise on the question, the Huguenot jurist and theologian Lambert Daneau (ca 1530 - 1595) equated dancing with playing games of chance and imm...