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- Dancing mania - Wikipedia
One of the first major outbreaks was in Aachen, in the Holy Roman Empire (within modern-day Germany), in 1374, and it quickly spread throughout Europe; one particularly notable outbreak occurred in Strasbourg in 1518 in Alsace, also in the Holy Roman Empire (now in modern-day France)
- A Strange Case of Dancing Mania Struck Germany Six Centuries Ago Today
In 1374, the region near the Rhine was suffering from the aftermath of another, true plague: the Black Death Waller argues that the dancers were under extreme psychological distress and were
- 5 Facts about Medieval ‘Dancing Mania’ - History Hit
Though all of the outbreaks of dancing mania that took place between the 7th and 17th centuries involved these symptoms, the most famous outbreak occurred on 24 June 1374 in Aachen, a prosperous city of the Holy Roman Empire (today in Germany), and another in 1518 also proved to be disastrous
- Today in History: June 24th, 1374 | The Vintage News
The exact cause of dancing mania is still a mystery, but there are several theories One theory is psychological stress Life was incredibly tough in the 14th century Europe was dealing with the Black Death (a deadly plague) and frequent famines These hardships might have caused extreme stress, leading to mass hysteria
- The Dancing Plague: What Caused Medieval People To Dance To Death . . .
What caused the medieval dance of death? A few months after it erupted, the dancing epidemic of 1374 blew itself out – not to reappear on a mass scale for more than a century
- What Was the Dancing Plague in Medieval Europe?
The first recorded outbreak of choreomania took place in 1374, in villages located along the Rhine River, where "hundreds of people were seized by an agonising compulsion to dance," according to
- The unsolved mystery of the medieval dancing plague
Originating in Aachen, Germany, in 1374, the world’s worst outbreak of dancing mania quickly spread to towns in Belgium and the Netherlands along the Rhine River Afflicted villagers took to the streets by the hundreds, dancing to music nobody else could hear
- A forgotten plague: making sense of dancing mania - The Lancet
Likewise, dozens of mediaeval authors recount the terrible compulsion to dance that, in 1374, swept across western Germany, the Low Countries, and northeastern France Chronicles agree that thousands of people danced in agony for days or weeks, screaming of terrible visions and imploring priests and monks to save their souls
- The Dancing Plague: Unraveling the Mystery of Medieval Europe‘s Saint . . .
The first recorded outbreak of dancing mania occurred in Aachen, Germany in 1374 According to contemporary accounts, a group of people began to dance erratically and involuntarily before the altar of a church dedicated to Saint John the Baptist
- The Medieval Dancing Plague of St. Vitus Dance
In 1374, thousands of villagers along the Rhine fell into a dancing mania, screaming in agony as the pain increased Up until the 15th century, nuns from different convents would climb trees and meow like cats!
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