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At Day's Close: Night in Times Past
by A. Roger Ekirch
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0393329011 | W. W. Norton & Company | 480 pages | epub | 22 MB
"Remarkable.. Ekirch has emptied night's pockets, and laid the contents out before us." ―Arthur Krystal, The New Yorker Bringing light to the shadows of history through a "rich weave of citation and archival evidence" ( Publishers Weekly ), scholar A. Roger Ekirch illuminates the aspects of life most often overlooked by other historians―those that unfold at night. In this "triumph of social history" ( Mail on Sunday ), Ekirch's "enthralling anthropology" ( Harper's ) exposes the nightlife that spawned a distinct culture and a refuge from daily life. Fear of crime, of fire, and of the supernatural; the importance of moonlight; the increased incidence of sickness and death at night; evening gatherings to spin wool and stories; masqued balls; inns, taverns, and brothels; the strategies of thieves, assassins, and conspirators; the protective uses of incantations, meditations, and prayers; the nature of our predecessors' sleep and dreams―Ekirch reveals all these and more in his "monumental study" ( The Nation ) of sociocultural history, "maintaining throughout an infectious sense of wonder" ( Booklist ).
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At Day's Close: Night in Times Past
by A. Roger Ekirch
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0393329011 | W. W. Norton & Company | 480 pages | epub | 22 MB
"Remarkable.. Ekirch has emptied night's pockets, and laid the contents out before us." ―Arthur Krystal, The New Yorker Bringing light to the shadows of history through a "rich weave of citation and archival evidence" ( Publishers Weekly ), scholar A. Roger Ekirch illuminates the aspects of life most often overlooked by other historians―those that unfold at night. In this "triumph of social history" ( Mail on Sunday ), Ekirch's "enthralling anthropology" ( Harper's ) exposes the nightlife that spawned a distinct culture and a refuge from daily life. Fear of crime, of fire, and of the supernatural; the importance of moonlight; the increased incidence of sickness and death at night; evening gatherings to spin wool and stories; masqued balls; inns, taverns, and brothels; the strategies of thieves, assassins, and conspirators; the protective uses of incantations, meditations, and prayers; the nature of our predecessors' sleep and dreams―Ekirch reveals all these and more in his "monumental study" ( The Nation ) of sociocultural history, "maintaining throughout an infectious sense of wonder" ( Booklist ).
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