Danses profanes et lieux sacrés au Moyen Âge central Les danses dans les cimetières entre contrôle social et négociations

This article takes the example of the cursed dancers of Colbeck as its point of departure in order to understand how, for a long time, dancing in cemeteries was a subject of moral discourse. The following two stages are connected to the history of the Church: at first clearly distinguishing non-clerical dancing from liturgy, then rejecting dance in general as evil. The violence of these condemnations is perhaps explained by the existence of a competing morality: that of dancers.