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Product Identifiers
PublisherSourcebooks, Incorporated
ISBN-101402219431
ISBN-139781402219436
eBay Product ID (ePID)72452420
Product Key Features
Book TitleDancing Plague : the Strange, True Story of an Extraordinary Illness
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2009
TopicCultural Heritage, Sociology / General, General, Epidemiology, Europe / General, Europe / Medieval
GenreSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography, Medical, History
AuthorJohn Waller
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight9.3 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2009-007866
Dewey Edition22
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal362.196/83009443954
SynopsisA gripping tale of one of history's most bizarre events, and what it reveals about the strange possibilities of human nature In the searing July heat of 1518, Frau Troffea stepped into the streets of Strasbourg and began to dance. Bathed in sweat, she continued to dance. Overcome with exhaustion, she stopped, and then resumed her solitary jig a few hours later. Over the next two months, roughly four hundred people succumbed to the same agonizing compulsion. At its peak, the epidemic claimed the lives of fifteen men, women, and children a day. Possibly 100 people danced to their deaths in one of the most bizarre and terrifying plagues in history. John Waller compellingly evokes the sights, sounds, and aromas; the diseases and hardships; the fervent supernaturalism and the desperate hedonism of the late medieval world. Based on new evidence, he explains why the plague occurred and how it came to an end. In doing so, he sheds light on the strangest capabilities of the human mind and on our own susceptibility to mass hysteria., A gripping tale of one of history's most bizarre events, and what it reveals about the strange possibilities of human nature.
LC Classification NumberRC389.W35 2009
