I feel some details might have lost in 500 years :) The council probably liked the decadence of the happening and they added some fuel. It was probably unreal to be at a "festival" you never seen before so I can understand.
I learned recently that when elephants are very hot, they need to wildly flap their ears to cool their blood (as the blood flows from the body to the brain by way of the ears.) Maybe they hypothesized a similar effect?
I like to listen to his podcasts when commuting : he is right at the edge of pop-history (leaning towards the serious one) and several of the stories were brilliant. Not sure what will happen now that he left the radio he was on.
Another good pop-historian one is of course Stéphane Bern, though the visuals of his TV series are more interesting than the strict historical part.
I'm surprised that the poignancy of Martin Luther's proclamations [0] the previous year seem to have been lost in this analysis. It's interesting that the article suggests that the belief-systems driving this hysteria began to diminish in the years following. Was this peak middle-ages? Had the papacy driven everybody to breaking point at this stage?
I don't know if anything new has come to light though.
A particular touching thing was that they made red shoes for the dancers, a known expensive colour, to show how much they valued them, but it didn't stop the dancing.
The film the Red Shoes was based on HC Anderson's story, which as far as I can tell has no connection with this dancing epidemic, just that his Dad was a shoe maker and had some spare red material...
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No no no... we call them festivals now :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA7K8gfLQsY
Another good pop-historian one is of course Stéphane Bern, though the visuals of his TV series are more interesting than the strict historical part.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformation#Martin_Luther_and_...
Just like with the celestial phenomena in Nuremberg 1561, and Basel 1566:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1561_celestial_phenomenon_ov...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1566_celestial_phenomenon_ov...
https://iconbooks.com/ib-title/a-time-to-dance-a-time-to-die...
I don't know if anything new has come to light though.
A particular touching thing was that they made red shoes for the dancers, a known expensive colour, to show how much they valued them, but it didn't stop the dancing.
The film the Red Shoes was based on HC Anderson's story, which as far as I can tell has no connection with this dancing epidemic, just that his Dad was a shoe maker and had some spare red material...
Now we call it the 'online community'.