[Download pdf] The Dancing Plague: The Strange, True Story of an Extraordinary Illness
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| #473221 in Books | Sourcebooks | 2009-09-01 | 2009-09-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x5.50 x.75l,.75 | File Name: 1402219431 | 288 pages |
||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Good, informative history written with a somewhat scholarly bent|By James A. White|John Waller is a great storyteller, and he certainly makes history interesting and scientific history, in particular, accessible. This excellent little account of a forgotten dancing epidemic in 1518 Strasbourg is well-written, informative, and interpretive of the history. As a previous review|From Publishers Weekly|In Strasbourg in 1518, a dance craze began that, far from being a mere fashion, was a form of hysteria in which people literally danced themselves to death. The plague began on July 14, 1518, when Frau Troffea stepped into the streets of
A 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 compu...
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