Author: Backman, E. Louis
Title: Religious Dances in the Christian Church and in Popular Medicine
Description: London, Allen & Unwin, 1952. orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xii,364 pp, Some page-margin browning. In a heavily rubbed, chipped & torn dustwrapper. Slight spine slope.. Textual illustrations.. Name inked to front endpaper. Rubbed. Good. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Religious Dances among the Jews; Dancing in the Earliest Christian Church; At the Graves of the Martyrs; The Dance and the Church Hymns; Sacred Church Dances; Popular Church Dances; The Dance and the Dead;The Prohibition of Religious Dances; The Processions of the Flagellants; The Earliest Dance Epidemics; The Children of Hamelin; Dance Epidemics of the Fourteenth Century; The Hungarian Pilgrimages; Dance Epidemics of the Fifteenth Century; Dance Epidemics of the Sixteenth Century; Dance Epidemics of the Seventeenth Century; Dance Epidemics of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; The Saints Invoked; Choreomaniac Magic; Choreomaniac and Heresy; St Anthony's Fire; Dance Epidemics and Ergotism; Summary.

Keywords: History of Medicine, Ergotism Ergot, St. Vitus Dance, Religious Dances, Medieval Folklore, Folk Christian, Dancing Epidemics, Epidemic Medical, Pharmacology