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John Waller.
A Time to Dance, a Time to Die: The Extraordinary Dancing Plague of 1518.
Published Thriplow: Icon Books, 2008.
ISBN 9781848310216.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound.
Printer: Clays of Bungay.
Size: 135x204x27mm.
Page count: xv,267pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: spine slightly skewed from reading.


This item £7.50
P&P inc. within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price £12.99]
Weight without packaging: 418g.


Investigates an episode of mass hysteria that struck Strasbourg in July, 1518.

Contents: Signs of the times; Plagues & priests; Hard times; The mystery of Frau Troffea's dance; Trance fever; Of music & hot blood; Lords of the dance; Volte face; Holy magic; Aftermath; Death of a curse; Charcot's error.

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