Book ID: CBB001201831

Evening's Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe (2011)

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Koslofsky, Craig M. (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: xvi + 431 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index
Language: English

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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Description Explores the way people understood the night, using diaries, letters, legal records, and representations of the night in religion, literature and art.


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Review Zmora, Hillay (2013) Review of "Evening's Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe". Central European History (p. 645). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Feola, Vittoria
Young, Francis
Werrett, Simon
Verhoeven, Gerrit
Vanderheyden, Vrajabhūmi
Utz Tremp, Kathrin
Concepts
Science and culture
Witchcraft; demonology
Science and religion
Magic
Court sponsored science
Courts and courtiers
Time Periods
16th century
17th century
15th century
18th century
Early modern
Renaissance
Places
Europe
England
Italy
Prague (Czechia)
Americas
United States
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