Evening's Empire (New Studies in European History)

Evening’s Empire

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 labor 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.

Craig Koslofsky is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His previous publications include
The Reformation of the Dead: Death and Ritual in Early Modern Germany
(2001).

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Evening’s Empire
A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe
Craig
Koslofsky
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Craig Koslofsky
2011

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2011
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Koslofsky, Craig.
Evening’s empire : a history of the night in early modern Europe / Craig Koslofsky.
p. cm. – (New studies in European history)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-521-89643-6 (hardback)
1. Night. 2. Night–Social aspects–Europe. 3. Nightlife–Europe.
4. Europe–Social life and customs. 5. Europe–History–16th century.
6. Europe–History–17th century. I. Title. II. Series.
GT3408.K67 2011
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2011008028
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