Author: J. F. C. HECKERPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
The Dancing Mania of the Middle Ages
Author: Justus Friedrich Carl HeckerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chorea, Epidemic
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Dancing Mania of the Middle Ages
Author: J. F. C. HECKERPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
The Dancing Mania of the Middle Ages
Author: Justus Friedrich Karl HeckerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chorea, Epidemic
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
The Dancing Mania of the Middle Ages
Author: Justus Friedrich Carl HeckerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780879689926
Category : Chorea, Epidemic
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
The Dancing Mania
Author: Justus Friedrich Karl HeckerPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3748102364
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
The effects of the Black Death had not yet subsided, and the graves of millions of its victims were scarcely closed, when a strange delusion arose in Germany, which took possession of the minds of men, and, in spite of the divinity of our nature, hurried away body and soul into the magic circle of hellish superstition. It was a convulsion which in the most extraordinary manner infuriated the human frame, and excited the astonishment of contemporaries for more than two centuries, since which time it has never reappeared. It was called the dance of St. John or of St. Vitus, on account of the Bacchantic leaps by which it was characterized, and which gave to those affected, whilst performing their wild dance, and screaming and foaming with fury, all the appearance of persons possessed. It did not remain confined to particular localities, but was propagated by the sight of the sufferers, like a demoniacal epidemic, over the whole of Germany and the neighbouring countries to the north-west, which were already prepared for its reception by the prevailing opinions of the time.
The Dancing Mania of the Middle Ages
Author: Justus Friedrich Carl HeckerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
The Dancing Mania of the Middle Ages
Author: The Black Death and the Dancing Mania of the Middle Ages
Author: Karl HeckerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781463606749
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Dancing mania (also known as dancing plague, choreomania, St John's Dance and historically St. Vitus' Dance) was a social phenomenon that occurred primarily in mainland Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries. It involved groups of people, sometimes thousands at a time, who danced uncontrollably and bizarrely. They would also scream, shout, and sing, and claim to have visions or hallucinations. The mania affected men, women, and children, who danced until they collapsed from exhaustion.Contents:IntroductionGeneral Observations About The Black DeathThe DiseaseIts Causes and SpreadMortalityMoral EffectsPhysiciansThe Dancing Mania in Northern EuropeThe Dancing Mania in Southern EuropeThe Dancing Mania in North AfricaSympathy
The Dancing Mania of the Middle Ages
Author: Justus Friedrich Karl HeckerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chorea, Epidemic
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Black Death and the Dancing Mania
Author: J. F. C. HeckerPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781979668644
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The Black Death and The Dancing Mania. The account of "The Black Death" here translated by Dr. Babington was Hecker's first important work of this kind. It was published in 1832, and was followed in the same year by his account of "The Dancing Mania." The books here given are the two that first gave Hecker a wide reputation. Many other such treatises followed, among them, in 1865, a treatise on the "Great Epidemics of the Middle Ages." Besides his "History of Medicine," which, in its second volume, reached into the fourteenth century, and all his smaller treatises, Hecker wrote a large number of articles in Encyclopædias and Medical Journals. Professor J.F.K. Hecker was, in a more interesting way, as busy as Professor A.F. Hecker, his father, had been. He transmitted the family energies to an only son, Karl von Hecker, born in 1827, who distinguished himself greatly as a Professor of Midwifery, and died in 1882.