Religious Dances in the Christian Church and in Popular Medicine

Front Cover
Bloomsbury Academic, Nov 8, 1977 - Education - 378 pages

Contents

Introductory
1
Religious Dances among the Jews
9
At the Graves of the Martyrs
39
Popular Church Dances
95
The Dance and the Dead
131
The Children of Hamelin
181
Dance Epidemics of the Fourteenth
190
The Hungarian Pilgrimages
216
Dance Epidemics of the Seventeenth
252
The Saints Invoked
258
Choreomaniac Magic
270
Choreomania and Heresy
290
Dance Epidemics and Ergotism
306
Summary
328
INDEX
355
Copyright

Dance Epidemics of the Fifteenth
231

Other editions - View all

Bibliographic information