Acknowledgements... I x // Introduction. Situating the Dance of Death... i // The Dance of Death and Its Beginnings - Problems and Issues // Chapter 1. Framing the Dance of Death... 19 // Emergence of the Macabre - The Dance of Death and the Macabre - Staging // Death - The Dance of Death: The Social Climate // Chapter 2. Dancing the Dance of Death... 51 // Dance and Death: Proscriptions and Rationalisations - Dance after Death: // Dancing in Heaven and Hell - Dance and Death in Pastoral Literature Dancing the Dance of Death: Dancing as a Threshold - Dance as Death I: Visual // Displacement - Dance as Death II: Auditory Displacement - Death as Dance // Chapter 3. Performing the Dance of Death... 77 // Performing Death -Visual Cues: Bodies and Gestures - Textual Cues: Conflict, // Empathy, and Disconnection - The Actor as Death - Death as an Actor Pleyinge and Peyntyngc // Chapter 4. Reading the Dance of Death... 101 // The Dance of Death in Rcval: Imagery and Text - Reval and the Church of St // Nicholas - Defining the Reval Viewer - Experiencing the Dance - Reading the // Dance // Chapter 5. Transforming the Dance of Death... 12$ // The Dance of Death at La Chaisc-Dicu: Description and Context - Fragmented // Narrative: The Bite of Death - The Dance of Death at Berlin: Description and // Context - Joining the Dance: The Last Judgement - The Dance of Death at // Meslay-le-G renet: Description and Context - The Child in the Eucharist Beholder as Mediator
// Epilogue. Taming the Dance of Death... 161 // Medieval Dance of Death: Conclusions - A Period of Transition - Holbein: // The New Conception // TABLE OF CONTEXTS // Appendix. Selected Texts... 181 // Dan a general de la muerte, Escoriai, Madrid, ms. B. IV, 21, fols. 1091-291, fifteenth century - The Dance of Death of John Lydgate, Huntington Library, // ms. Ellesmere 26/A.13, fols, ir-iiv, fifteenth century - Danse Macabre de Guyot // Marchant, 7 June 1486, BnF, Res. Ye 189 - The Dance of Death in the Church // of St Mary, Berlin, ca. 1490 // Endnotes... 253 // Abbreviations... 283 // Bibliography... 283 // List of Figures 307 // Subject Index... 313 // Index of Dance of Death characters... 327 // Plates... 327