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A fascinating and colourful social history of the nighttime in the pre-Industrial era. AT DAY'S CLOSE charts a fresh realm of Western culture, nocturnal life from the late medieval period to the Industrial revolution. The book focuses on the cadences of daily life, investigating nighttime in its own right and resurrecting a rich and complex universe in which persons passed nearly half of their lives - a world, long-lost to historians, of blanket fairs, night freaks, and curtain lectures, of sun-

Author

Roger A. Ekirch, A. Roger Ekirch

Publisher

Orion Publishing Group, Limited

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780753819401

Subjects

Social Science, History, Social_sciences

Updated

2026-03-25