In the Renaissance period the body emerges as the repository of
social and cultural forces and a privileged metaphor for political
practices and legal codification. Due to its ambivalent expressive
force, it represents the seat and the means for the performance of
normative identity and at the same time of alterity. The essays of
the collection address the manifold articulations of this topic,
demonstrating how the inscription of the body within the discursive
spheres of gender identity, sexuality, law, and politics align its
materiality with discourses whose effects are themselves material.
The aesthetic and performative dimension of law inform the debates
on the juridical constitution of authority, as well as its
reflection on the formation and the moulding of individual
subjectivity. Moreover, the inherently theatrical elements of the
law find an analogy in the popular theatre, where juridical
practices are represented, challenged, occasionally subverted or
created. The works analyzed in the volume, in their ample spectre
of topics and contexts aim at demonstrating how in the Renaissance
period the body was the privileged focus of the social, legal and
cultural imagination.
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