At Day's Close: A History of NighttimePhoenix, 2006 - 447 pagine Charting a realm of Western culture, nocturnal life from the late medieval period to the Industrial revolution, this book focuses on the cadences of daily life, investigating nighttime 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, and more. |