Today's installment concludes Medieval Dancing Mania,our selection from Epidemics of the Middle Ages by J. F. C. Hecker published in 1832. For works

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There is good ground for supposing that the frantic celebration of the festival of St. John, A.D. 1374, only served to bring to a crisis a malady

Was this a religious phenomenon? Pentecostal Churches today see wild convulsions and excited behavior but pastors of those churches are careful to