In his book At Day’s Close, A. Roger Ekirch explores how the meaning of night, the forgotten half of history, changed before the advent of the Industrial Revolution. Fewer topics have elicited less attention from historians than “night in times past,” a subject that Ekirch believes has been unjustly bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 8 mins. · J. AT DAY'S CLOSE Night in Times Past. By A. Roger Ekirch. Illustrated. pp. W. W. Norton Company. $ Night "in times past," A. Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. · Historian A. Roger Ekirch discussed his book, "At Day's Close: Night in Times Past," which examines the history of nocturnal activity in society in Western Europe, from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean, before the advent of the Industrial Revolution. Ekirch describes how nighttime embodied a distinct culture, with many of its own customs and rituals.
AT DAY'S CLOSE Night in Times Past. By A. Roger Ekirch. Illustrated. pp. W. W. Norton Company. $ Night "in times past," A. Roger Ekirch believes, has been unjustly neglected as a. I found A. Roger Ekirch's At Day's Close: Night in Times Past, published in , endlessly fascinating — and endlessly irritating.. What Ekirch set out to do in this book was to look at the myriad aspects of life after dark for the people in preindustrial Europe and North America (generally through ). "Remarkable. Ekirch has emptied night's pockets, and laid the contents out before us." —Arthur Krystal, The New Yorker Bringing light to the shadows of history through a "rich weave of citation and archival evidence" (Publishers Weekly), scholar A. Roger Ekirch illuminates the aspects of life most often overlooked by other historians—those that unfold at night.
Ekirch shows that in times past people arose approximately halfway during the night and engaged in numerous activities (writing, sexual intercourse, etc.) for an hour or so before returning to sleep again until the morning. This was quite natural and something many people did, with that time providing a beneficial period for reflection or intimacy. J. AT DAY'S CLOSE Night in Times Past. By A. Roger Ekirch. Illustrated. pp. W. W. Norton Company. $ Night "in times past," A. Roger Ekirch believes, has been unjustly. Night in Times Past. by A. Roger Ekirch (Author, Virginia Tech) "Remarkable.. Ekirch has emptied night's pockets, and laid the contents out before us." —Arthur Krystal, The New Yorker. Bringing light to the shadows of history through a "rich weave of citation and archival evidence" (Publishers Weekly), scholar A. Roger Ekirch illuminates the aspects of life most often overlooked by other historians—those that unfold at night.
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