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A Time To Dance, A Time To Die: The Extraordinary Story Of The Dancing Plague Of 1518 (2008)

by John Waller(Favorite Author)

3.41 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1848310218 (ISBN13: 9781848310216)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Icon Books Ltd

review 1: Sesuai dengan judulnya, buku ini menceritakan sejarah tentang wabah menari yang pernah terjadi di tahun 1518 yang melanda kota Strasbourg. Namun, sayangnya cerita dalam buku ini terasa membosankan karena terlalu banyak hal - hal ilmiah yang dituturkan dalam buku ini.. Welll, mungkin juga karena saya tidak terlalu suka pada hal - hal ilmiah yang dituturkan secara membosankan. Tadinya saya pikir buku ini akan berisi penuturan lebih jauh tentang sejarah wabah menari tersebut dan bagaimana akhirnya wabah tersebut terlewati.Entahkah, rasanya membosankan membaca buku ini....
review 2: This was an excellent investigation of the dancing mania which gripped Strasbourg in July 1518 and led to possibly hundreds of people dancing themselves to death. It was also an insight... moreful and informative account of the pressures of life in late medieval Europe, the bad harvests, the self interested hierarchies, exploitation and domination and the dawning of a new renaissance age.John Waller’s account quickly grips as it sketches out in detail how tough life was for most people. Its great success though is in demonstrating the various pressures and sufferings which combined in this area to create the circumstances for such a horror. And the greatest of these, the final straw, was the loss of hope caused by the betrayal of those charged with promising the everlasting possibility of redemption, the Church.Further to the history though was John Waller’s extrapolation of the dancing mania which gripped the superstitious and forsaken to other psychological phenomena in our more rational age. As we once again live in uncertain times and feel betrayed by our leaders again, we may not dance ourselves to death, but how will our trauma demonstrate itself? less

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