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Contents: Introduction: by the tomb of St Genesius, Peter Gillgren and MA[yen]rten Snickare Part I A Performative Society: Varieties of performance in 17th-century Italy, Peter Burke Diplomatic performances and the applied arts in 17th-century Europe, Martin Olin CorpoReality: Queen Christina of Sweden and the embodiment of sovereignty, Camilla Kandare How to do things with the piazza San Pietro: performativity and baroque architecture, MA[yen]rten Snickare. Part II Performances and Audiences: Transforming spectators into viri perculsi: Baroque theatre as machinery for producing affects, Erika Fischer-Lichte Angels or sirens? Questions of performance and reception in Roman church music around 1650, Lars Berglund The Quarant 'Ore: early modern ritual and performativity, Nils Holger Petersen. Part III Performativity and Interpretation: Allegories of Eros: Caravaggio's masque, Genevieve Warwick Una dolcissima estasi: performing The Visitation by Frederico Barocci, Peter Gillgren The apparition of faith: the performative meaning of Gian Lorenzo Bernini's decoration for the Cornaro chapel, Margarethe Rossholm LagerlA f Performativity in Michelangelo's Last Judgment, Giovanni Careri. Part IV Postscript: Baroque rhetoric: the methodology, David Carrier Bibliography Index.
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