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Evening's Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe

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    9780521721066

  • ISBN10:

    0521721067

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-08-08
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

What does it mean to write a history of the night? Evening's Empire is a fascinating guide to 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 vista 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, gender and the public sphere to colonization, race and the Enlightenment.

Table of Contents

List of figuresp. ix
List of mapsp. xiii
Acknowledgmentsp. xiv
An early modern revolutionp. 1
An early modern revolutionp. 2
Taking stockp. 5
Darkness and the Devil, 1450-1650p. 19
The "Wittenberg Nightingale"p. 19
Instruments of darknessp. 23
Witchcraftp. 28
Seeking the Lord in the night, 1530-1650p. 46
Discovering the nightp. 46
Seeking the Lord in the nightp. 47
Thinking with the night about Godp. 73
A refuge in the nightp. 88
Princes of darkness: the night at court, 1600-1750p. 91
Nocturnal spectacles and pleasuresp. 93
Darkness and the perspective stagep. 103
The nocturnalization of daily life at courtp. 110
Princes of darknessp. 118
"An entirely new contrivance": the rise of street lighting, 1660-1700p. 128
Lighting the streets of early modern Europep. 131
Policing the night: street lighting in Lillep. 140
Absolutism and street lighting in Leipzigp. 145
Resistance by local authoritiesp. 151
Spectacle, security, and sociabilityp. 155
Colonizing the urban night: resistance, gender, and the public spherep. 157
Hand grenades, horsewhips, and the civilizing processp. 159
Resistancep. 162
Gender and the public spherep. 174
Colonizing the rural night?p. 198
Patternsp. 200
Colonizing the rural night?p. 218
Country folk, city nights: daily time diverges in the eighteenth centuryp. 228
Darkness and Enlightenmentp. 236
Ghostsp. 238
Witchesp. 247
Hellp. 252
Darkness and Enlightenmentp. 258
Darkness and race in the early Enlightenmentp. 268
Conclusionp. 276
Notesp. 283
Bibliographyp. 372
Indexp. 424
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