A Time to Dance, a Time to Die: The Extraordinary Story of the Dancing Plague of 1518 by John Waller

A Time to Dance, a Time to Die: The Extraordinary Story of the Dancing Plague of 1518

John Waller

267 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative tense slow-paced
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After one woman had danced to exhaustion in Strasbourg in July 1518, the dancing sickness quickly escalated into an epidemic that lasted over a month, with many people dying after dancing with crazed abandon for days. This study tells the story of...

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