Dance in Europe, 1250-1750 -- Dance in late thirteenth century Paris -- Dance and society in quatrocento Italy -- Dance in sixteenth and early seventeenth century France -- Pierre Beauchamps and the Public Theater -- Dance in the London theaters, c. 1700-1750 -- The relationship between dance an music in fifteenth-century Italian dance practice -- The basse dance, c. 1445-c.1545 -- Choreographic structure in baroque dance -- Your most humble subject, Cesare Negri Milanese -- The politics of ballet at the court of Louis XIV -- Mr Isaac's, the pastorall and issues of party -- Plato's philosophy of dance -- Moral views on dance -- Order proportion, and geometric forms : the cosmic structure of dance, grand gardens and architecture during the renaissance

Cultural history of dance in courtly and theatrical settings