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The following is a term paper for a course on Social History in Early Modern Europe I took with Professor Nicholas Terpstra at the University of Toronto.

Terpsichore Revised: An examination and expansion of Mary Pennino-Baskerville’s
“Terpsichore Reviled: Antidance Tracts in Elizabethan England” 

    • Introduction
    • The Treatise Writers
    • Antidance Treatises
    • The Archival Records
    • Physical Harm
    • Morris Dancing
    • Economic Problems
    • Moral Threats
    • Desecration of the Sacraments
    • Married Couples
    • Illicit Sexual Activity
    • Profanation of the Sabbath and Holy Days
    • Assessing the Moralists’ Claims
    • Conclusion
    • Appendix 1
    • Appendix 2
    • Bibliography

For excerpts from my other papers please see, Writings & Research.