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At Day's Close : Night in Times Past by Ekirch, A. Roger is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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<p><b>"Remarkable....Ekirch has emptied night's pockets, and laid the contents out before us."—Arthur Krystal,</b> The New Yorker</p> <p>Bringing light to the shadows of history through a "rich weave of citation and archival evidence" (<b>Publishers Weekly</b>), scholar A. Roger Ekirch illuminates the aspects of life most often overlooked by other historians—those that unfold at night. In this "triumph of social history" (<b>Mail on Sunday</b>), Ekirch's "enthralling anthropology" (<b>Harper's</b>) exposes the nightlife that spawned a distinct culture and a refuge from daily life.</p> <p>Fear of crime, of fire, and of the supernatural; the importance of moonlight; the increased incidence of sickness and death at night; evening gatherings to spin wool and stories; masqued balls; inns, taverns, and brothels; the strategies of thieves, assassins, and conspirators; the protective uses of incantations, meditations, and prayers; the nature of our predecessors' sleep and dreams—Ekirch reveals all these and more in his "monumental study" (<b>The Nation</b>) of sociocultural history, "maintaining throughout an infectious sense of wonder" (<b>Booklist</b>).</p>

Who reads At Day's Close : Night in Times Past?

Author

Ekirch, A. Roger

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781119704942

Category

history

Subjects

Social Science, Fiction, Science

Rating

3.68 / 5 (566 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13