At Day’s Close: A History of Nighttime
Author: A. Roger Ekirch
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 night time 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, nigh….Read More
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