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The dancing plague of 1518, or dance epidemic of 1518 (French: Épidémie dansante de 1518), was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (modern-day France), in the Holy Roman Empire from July 1518 to September 1518. Somewhere between 50 and 400 people took to dancing for weeks.
31 sie 2015 · In July 1518, residents of the city of Strasbourg (then part of the Holy Roman Empire) were struck by a sudden and seemingly uncontrollable urge to dance. The hysteria kicked off when a woman ...
Dancing plague of 1518, event in which hundreds of citizens of Strasbourg (then a free city within the Holy Roman Empire, now in France) danced uncontrollably and apparently unwillingly for days on end. The mania lasted for about two months before ending as mysteriously as it began.
Dancing mania (also known as dancing plague, choreomania, St. John's Dance, tarantism and St. Vitus' Dance) was a social phenomenon that may have had biological causes, which occurred primarily in mainland Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries. It involved groups of people dancing erratically, sometimes thousands at a time.
21 cze 2024 · Mass Hysteria. One of the most widely accepted theories is that the Dancing Plague was a case of mass hysteria, also known as mass psychogenic illness. This phenomenon occurs when a group of...
The first hypothesis proposed to explain the dancing plague was that it was caused by mass hysteria or a psychological disorder. At the time, Strasbourg was a densely populated and highly stressed city, with frequent outbreaks of disease, famine, and social unrest.
11 cze 2022 · Offering another theory, historian John Waller posited that the dancing plague was simply a symptom of medieval mass hysteria. Waller, author of A Time to Dance, A Time to Die: The Extraordinary Story of the Dancing Plague of 1518 and the foremost expert on the subject, believes mass hysteria brought on by horrific conditions in Strasbourg at ...
