Keep on moving: the bizarre dance epidemic of summer 1518
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Keep on moving: the bizarre dance epidemic of summer 1518
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Re: Keep on moving: the bizarre dance epidemic of summer 1518
#2This is pretty weird.. who would have thought they're prescribe "more dancing for cooked minds!"
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#4> Fortunately, the 1518 dance epidemic was the last of its kind in Europe.
No no no... we call them festivals now :)
Re: Keep on moving: the bizarre dance epidemic of summer 1518
#5This is pretty weird.. who would have thought they're prescribe "more dancing for cooked minds!"
I feel some details might have lost in 500 years :) The council probably liked the decadence of the happening and they added some fuel. It was probably unreal to be at a "festival" you never seen before so I can understand.
Just like experiencing a techo party for the first time no one seen before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWUiLJnEYJI
Re: Keep on moving: the bizarre dance epidemic of summer 1518
#6If you understand french, I advice you to listen to this podcast by Franck Ferrand which explains lot of aspects !
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#7I'm surprised that the poignancy of Martin Luther's proclamations [0] the previous year seem to have been lost in this analysis. It's interesting that the article suggests that the belief-systems driving this hysteria began to diminish in the years following. Was this peak middle-ages? Had the papacy driven everybody to breaking point at this stage?
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformation#Martin_Luther_and_...
Re: Keep on moving: the bizarre dance epidemic of summer 1518
#8Mishandled. If they had a fever, the only prescription in the middle ages, and even recently, would have been more cowbell.
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#9Too bad we will probably never know what it really was...
Just like with the celestial phenomena in Nuremberg 1561, and Basel 1566:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1561_celestial_phenomenon_ov...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1566_celestial_phenomenon_ov...
Re: Keep on moving: the bizarre dance epidemic of summer 1518
#10I would have guessed that such thing could have been caused by overconsumption of Ephedra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephedra