Evening's Empire

Evening's Empire

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Koslofsky, Craig
Cambridge University Press
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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.
EAN 9780521721066
ISBN 0521721067
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Publication date June 30, 2011
Pages 448
Language English
Dimensions 228 x 152 x 21
Country United Kingdom
Authors Koslofsky, Craig
Illustrations 2 Maps; 32 Halftones, unspecified; 4 Line drawings, unspecified
Series New Studies in European History
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