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A time to dance, a time to die

the extraordinary story of the dancing plague of 1518

by Waller, John

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The true story of a wild dancing epidemic that brought death and fear to a 16th-century city, and the terrifying supernatural beliefs from which it arose.

HistoryChoreaHistory, 16th CenturyEpidemiologyDisease OutbreaksSocial conditionsEpidemic ChoreaChorea, epidemicFrance, social conditions