Roger Ekirch - At Day's Close - Night in Times Past, 2005.epub

== At Day's Close: Night in Times Past ==
__ by A. Roger Ekirch ___________________


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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