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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
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.
Olde Kensington, a small neighborhood just north of Center City
Philadelphia, was predominantly a post-industrial area when I moved
in, yet ominous signs of imminent change seemed to indicate that
the fate of the place rested in other hands. Muddling my way
through the unfamiliar streets on foot, the city seemed to push and
pull me in this direction or that one, like it was leading me
somewhere. Sometimes I resisted, others I followed, but I never
caught a glimpse of my secret guide, who insisted on remaining
shrouded in the empty spaces of the city. As a record of these
ambulations, this work limns the tension between the extant and the
imminent, the intervalic experience of living in a city in flux,
and a complicated relationship to place.
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Poetical Works (Paperback)
Edmund Denham John Waller
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Poetical Works (Hardcover)
Edmund Denham John Waller
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R1,968
R1,847
Discovery Miles 18 470
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This is a new release of the original 1936 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1936 edition.
Title: The works of Oliver Goldsmith ... With introductions, notes,
and a life of Oliver Goldsmith, by John Francis Waller.Publisher:
British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is
the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the
world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items
in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers,
sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection
includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The
collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from
some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written
for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any
curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages
past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes
song-books, comedy, and works of satire. ++++The below data was
compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic
record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool
in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library
Goldsmith, Oliver; Waller, John; 1872]. pp. xliv, 369; illus.,
port. 27 cm. 12270.k.1.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Delve into what it
was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the
first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and
farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists
and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original
texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly
contemporary.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++British LibraryT145135The Appendix
consists of a petition to the Treasury by John Waller, the
author.London: printed for R. Griffiths, 1755. 2],24p.; 8
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