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At day's close : night in times past / A. Roger Ekirch.

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  • ISBN: 0393050890
  • ISBN: 9780393050899
  • Physical Description: xxxii, 447 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
  • Edition: 1st edition
  • Publisher: New York : Norton, [2005]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-414) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Terrors of the night : heavens and Earth -- Mortal perils : plunder, violence, and fire -- The fragility of authority : church and state -- A man's house is his castle : domestic fortifications -- Darkness visible : navigating the nightscape -- Works of darkness : labor -- The common benefactress : sociability, sex, and solitude -- Knightwalkers : princes and peers -- Masters by night : plebeians -- Ordinances of the bedchamber : rituals -- Unraveling the knitted sleeve : disturbances -- Sleep we have lost : rhythms and revelations.
Subject:
Social history.
Night > History.
Night > Social aspects.

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