Women Unbound: The Strasbourg Dance Plague of 1518

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Women Unbound: The Strasbourg Dance Plague of 1518

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Nottingham chapter. I recently finished reading Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s 2022 novel ‘The Dance Tree.’ Abeautifully evocative work which deals with the 1518 dance mania that took over the citysquare. The sufferers danced themselves into a frenzy, and even in some cases to death.We see the descent of the city and its people through the eyes of Lisbet, a pregnantbeekeeper who has l…