Getting your flirt on, medieval style! The earliest known dance manuals in Europe date to the 15th century and involve a series of scintillating choreographies that are performed to a specific piece of music. Despite the moralizing diatribes by the dance masters who composed these first manuals as a sort of C.V. to get hired by an illustrious patron, the figures and footwork naturally lend themselves to a charmingly coy and socially acceptable flirtation. Here is a prime example of such a dance,

How did medieval people dance? - Medievalists.net

What’s your favourite medieval dance? Posted @withregram • @the_creative_contessa Three lovely ladies dancing a 15th-century dance in what would have been considered underwear in the Middle Ages! 😅 This is gioioso in tre, an extremely popular dance from 15th century Italy, so popular that it made its way to France and burgundy, to England and all the way up to Scotland! It stays popular for almost a hundred years, with a version of it even appearing in a German letter from 1517! #dance #dancevi