ISBN:
9780511977695
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xvi, 431 pages)
Series Statement:
New studies in European history
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
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DDC:
304.2/37094
Keywords:
Geschichte 1600-1700
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Geschichte 1500-1600
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Geschichte 1450-1750
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Alltag, Brauchtum
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Geschichte
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Gesellschaft
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Night
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Night / Social aspects / Europe
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Nightlife / Europe
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Nachtleben
;
Finsternis
;
Kultur
;
Literatur
;
Nacht
;
Kunst
;
Nacht
;
Europa
;
Europe / Social life and customs
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Europe / History / 16th century
;
Europe / History / 17th century
;
Europa
;
Europa
;
Nacht
;
Finsternis
;
Nachtleben
;
Geschichte 1450-1750
;
Europa
;
Literatur
;
Kunst
;
Nacht
;
Geschichte 1450-1750
;
Europa
;
Kultur
;
Nacht
;
Geschichte 1450-1750
Abstract:
What does it mean to write a history of the night? Evening's Empire is a fascinating study of the myriad ways in which early modern people understood, experienced, and transformed the night. Using diaries, letters, and legal records together with representations of the night in early modern religion, literature and art, Craig Koslofsky opens up an entirely new perspective on early modern Europe. He shows how princes, courtiers, burghers and common people 'nocturnalized' political expression, the public sphere and the use of daily time. Fear of the night was now mingled with improved opportunities for labour and leisure: the modern night was beginning to assume its characteristic shape. Evening's Empire takes the evocative history of the night into early modern politics, culture and society, revealing its importance to key themes from witchcraft, piety, and gender to colonization, race, and the Enlightenment
Description / Table of Contents:
1. An early modern revolution -- 2. Darkness and the devil, 1450-1650 -- 3. Seeking the Lord in the night, 1530-1650 -- 4. Princes of darkness: the night at court, 1600-1750 -- 5. "An entirely new contrivance": the rise of street lighting, 1660-1700 -- 6. Colonizing the urban night: resistance, gender and the public sphere -- 7. Colonizing the rural night? -- 8. Darkness and enlightenment -- 9. Conclusion
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511977695
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