A Cultural History of Gesture - Jan N. Bremmer - Paperback Book

	List of illustrations
	Notes on contributors
	Preface
	Introduction	1
1	Walking, standing, and sitting in ancient Greek culture	15
2	Gestures and conventions: the gestures of Roman actors and orators	36
3	The rationale of gestures in the West: third to thirteenth centuries	59
4	The language of gesture in early modern Italy	71
5	The Renaissance elbow	84
6	The order of gestures: a social history of sensibilities under the Ancien Regime in France	129
7	The "hand of friendship": shaking hands and other gestures in the Dutch Republic	152
8	Gesture, ritual, and social order in sixteenth- to eighteenth-century Poland	190
9	The kiss sacred and profane: reflections on a cross-cultural confrontation	210
10	Gestured masculinity: body and sociability in rural Andalusia	237
	Gestures in history: a select bibliography	253
	Index of names	261
	Index of subjects	266