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List of figures | p. ix |
List of maps | p. xiii |
Acknowledgments | p. xiv |
An early modern revolution | p. 1 |
An early modern revolution | p. 2 |
Taking stock | p. 5 |
Darkness and the Devil, 1450-1650 | p. 19 |
The "Wittenberg Nightingale" | p. 19 |
Instruments of darkness | p. 23 |
Witchcraft | p. 28 |
Seeking the Lord in the night, 1530-1650 | p. 46 |
Discovering the night | p. 46 |
Seeking the Lord in the night | p. 47 |
Thinking with the night about God | p. 73 |
A refuge in the night | p. 88 |
Princes of darkness: the night at court, 1600-1750 | p. 91 |
Nocturnal spectacles and pleasures | p. 93 |
Darkness and the perspective stage | p. 103 |
The nocturnalization of daily life at court | p. 110 |
Princes of darkness | p. 118 |
"An entirely new contrivance": the rise of street lighting, 1660-1700 | p. 128 |
Lighting the streets of early modern Europe | p. 131 |
Policing the night: street lighting in Lille | p. 140 |
Absolutism and street lighting in Leipzig | p. 145 |
Resistance by local authorities | p. 151 |
Spectacle, security, and sociability | p. 155 |
Colonizing the urban night: resistance, gender, and the public sphere | p. 157 |
Hand grenades, horsewhips, and the civilizing process | p. 159 |
Resistance | p. 162 |
Gender and the public sphere | p. 174 |
Colonizing the rural night? | p. 198 |
Patterns | p. 200 |
Colonizing the rural night? | p. 218 |
Country folk, city nights: daily time diverges in the eighteenth century | p. 228 |
Darkness and Enlightenment | p. 236 |
Ghosts | p. 238 |
Witches | p. 247 |
Hell | p. 252 |
Darkness and Enlightenment | p. 258 |
Darkness and race in the early Enlightenment | p. 268 |
Conclusion | p. 276 |
Notes | p. 283 |
Bibliography | p. 372 |
Index | p. 424 |
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