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Evening's Empire

A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

AvCraig Koslofsky

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2011-06-30
Mått160 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt830 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Studies in European History
Antal sidor448
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9780521896436
UtmärkelserLongman-History Today Book of the Year Award 2011

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Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

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. Colonising the urban night: resistance, gender and the public sphere; 7. Colonising the rural night?; 8. Darkness and enlightenment; 9. Conclusion.