May 27, 2024 · Instead, many modern researchers believe that the dancing plague was a form of mass psychogenic illness, triggered by the intense stress and trauma of the Black Death and …

Hecker's first book on historical epidemics was The Dancing Mania, shortly followed by The Black Death in the fourteenth century (in short, The Black Death), both of which were written in 1832 …

May 7, 2007 · 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 …

Oct 11, 2017 · At a time when outbreaks of the Black Death and seemingly endless battles between France and England in the Hundred Years’ War left thousands of people dead, …

Nov 20, 2021 · In this context, artists depicted the most dreadful and morbid images of skeletons and people dancing with decaying corpses, sometimes eaten by worms. They developed a …

Apr 28, 2020 · The belief that God sent down the Black Death as punishment begins to explain the range of reactions noted by Boccaccio, and even the dancing plague of Aachen in 1374.

Poems and murals painted on the walls of churches depicted Death, portrayed by skeletons, as drawing all members of society, from the highest secular and religious officials, down to the …

The Danse Macabre, Totentanz, or “Dance of Death” was an important milestone in medieval art. Ghastly figures, often skeletons with tattered hair and clothing, dance and converse with …

Jan 23, 2025 · The dance of death had its origins in late 13th- or early 14th-century poems that combined the essential ideas of the inevitability and the impartiality of death. The concept …

Apr 15, 2022 · During the 1300s-1900s the Bubonic Plague, later known as the Black Death, was very overwhelming in Afro-Eurasia. It is the most fatal pandemic recorded in history causing …

Feb 1, 2025 · Dancing with the Dead follows the life of Bill Porter, who goes by the pen name Red Pine, an author and renowned translator of ancient Chinese poetry. The child of a bank …

Feb 3, 2025 · Florentina Holzinger, the daring Austrian choreographer, is back with “Tanz,” a rendering of ballet horror featuring the 83-year-old dancer Beatrice Cordua.

Feb 15, 2022 · The Dance of Death became a popular artistic theme during the Black Death, the bubonic plague that swept through Eurasia and North Africa between 1346 to 1353, which …

Feb 2, 2025 · After his death in 1901, Dédé’s “Morgiane” – like many manuscripts of 19th century Black composers – vanished, until by chance, researchers discovered a copy of the score in …

Feb 3, 2025 · Composer Edmond Dédé, a Black American living in exile in France, completed the nearly 550-page score in 1887. He thought of it as his greatest achievement. But the four-act, …