Performativity and Performance in Baroque Rome

In Performativity and Performance in Baroque Rome, scholars from different fields of research explore performative aspects of Baroque culture, giving examples from the politics of diplomacy and everyday life, from theatre, music and ritual as well as from architecture, painting and sculpture. A new interest in the study of early modern ritual, ceremony, formations of personal and collective identities, social roles, the production of meaning inside and outside the arts, have made it possible to talk today about a performative turn in the humanities. The contributors here demonstrate how broadly the concept of performativity has been adopted among scholars of different disciplines, such as cultural history, visual culture, art history, musicology, dance history, theatre history, and theology.