Dr Jennifer Nevile

Publications

Publications - Books

Jennifer Nevile, The Eloquent Body: Dance and Humanist Culture in Fifteenth-Century Italy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004.

Jennifer Nevile, ed. Dance, Spectacle, and the Body Politick, 1250-1750. Bloomington: Indiana Univerisity Press, 2008.

Selected Publications - Book chapters and Journal Articles

Jennifer Nevile, "Learning the Bassadanza from a Wolf: Andrea Calmo and Dance," Dance Research 30/1, 2012, pp. 80-97.

Jennifer Nevile, "Choreography and Meaning in Early Modern Danced Spectacles: A Catalyst for Discussion," Historical Dance 4/2, 2012, pp. 29-33.


Jennifer Nevile, "Dance Rehearsal Practices in Early Modern Court Spectacles," Parergon 28/1, 2011, pp. 135-53.

Jennifer Nevile, "Dance and Identity in Fifteenth-Century Europe," in The Partnership of Music and Dance: Essays in Musicology and Dance History, ed. Ann Buckley and Cynthia Cyrus, Medieval Institute Publications, 2011, pp. 231-48.


Jennifer Nevile, "'These bookes as I heare are all cawled in': Dance and Choreographic Records from the Stuart Masques," Early Theatre 12/1, 2009, pp. 51-68. Awarded an Honourable Mention in the Early Theatre Essay Competition 2009-2010.

Jennifer Nevile, "A Measure of Moral Virtue: Women, Dancing, and Public Performance in Fifteenth-Century Italy," in The Sounds and Sights of Performance in Early Music: Essays in Honour of Timothy J. McGee, ed. M. Epp and B. Power. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009, pp. 197-209.

Jennifer Nevile, "Dance Performance in the Late Middle Ages: A Contested Space," in Visualizing Medieval Performance: Perspectives, Histories, Contexts, ed. Elina Gertsman. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008, pp. 295-310.

Jennifer Nevile, "Dance in Europe 1250-1750," in Dance, Spectacle, and the Body Politick, 1250-1750, ed. Jennifer Nevile. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008, pp. 7-64.

Jennifer Nevile, "Dance and Society in Quattrocento Italy," in Dance, Spectacle, and the Body Politick, 1250-1750, ed. Jennifer Nevile. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008, pp. 80-92.

Jennifer Nevile, "The Relationship Between Dance and Music in Fifteenth-Century Italian Dance," in Dance, Spectacle, and the Body Politick, 1250-1750, ed. Jennifer Nevile. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008, pp. 155-65.

Jennifer Nevile, "Order, Proportion and Geometric Forms: The Cosmic Structure of Dance, Grand Gardens and Architecture During the Renaissance," in Dance, Spectacle, and the Body Politick, 1250-1750, ed. Jennifer Nevile. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008, pp. 295-311.

Jennifer Nevile, "The Early Dance Manuals and the Structure of Ballet: A Basis for Italian, French and English Ballet," in The Cambridge Companion to Ballet, ed. Marion Kant. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 9-18.

Jennifer Nevile, "Dance and Time in Fifteenth-Century Italy," in Art and Time, ed. Jan Lloyd Jones. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2007, pp. 300-314.

Jennifer Nevile, "'Rules for Design': Beauty and Grace in Caroso's Choreographies," Dance Research, 25/2, 2007, pp. 107-18.

Jennifer Nevile, "Disorder in Order: Improvisation in Italian Choreographed Dances of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries," in Improvisation in the Arts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, ed. Timothy J. McGee. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2003, pp. 145-69.

Jennifer Nevile, "Dance Patterns of the Early Seventeenth Century: The Stockholm Manuscript and Le Ballet de Monseigneur de Vendosme," Dance Research 18/2, 2000, pp. 186-203.

Jennifer Nevile, "Dance and the Garden: Moving and Static Choreography in Renaissance Europe," Renaissance Quarterly 52/3, 1999, pp. 805-36.

Jennifer Nevile, "Dance Steps and Music in the Gresley Manuscript," Historical Dance, 3/6, 1999, pp. 2-19.

Jennifer Nevile, "Cavalieri's Theatrical Ballo and the Social Dances of Caroso and Negri," Dance Chronicle 22/1, 1999, pp. 119-33.

Jennifer Nevile, "Cavalieri's Theatrical Ballo : 'O che nuovo miracolo': A Reconstruction," Dance Chronicle 21/3, 1998, pp. 353-88.

Jennifer Nevile, "Dance in Early Tudor England: An Italian Connection?," Early Music 26/2, 1998, pp. 230-44.

Forthcoming

Jennifer Nevile, "Multimediale Repraesentation: Musik Theater und Tanz," in Musik im Kontext der Disziplinen, vol. 5 of Reniassance Handbuch, ed. Nicole Schwindt. Laaber-Verlag, forthcoming 2013.

Jennifer Nevile, "Dance," forthcoming in Oxford Bibliographies in Renaissance and Reformation, ed. Margaret King. New York: Oxford University Press.


Invited Public Lecture

Jennifer Nevile, Dance, Society and the Cosmos in Late-Medieval and Renaissance Europe, (The 2008 Gordon Athol Anderson Memorial Lecture). Armidale: University of New England, 2009.

Other Information

At the end of 1999 Dr Nevile produced a twenty-five minute video, The Amiable Conqueror: Dancing at the Courts of Europe , that showcased several sixteenth-century dances and four baroque choreographies. (A copy is located in the Social Sciences and Humanities Library).