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The Epidemics of the Middle Ages

Note 7 — Chapter I · THE DANCING MANIA IN GERMANY AND THE NETHERLANDS.

B. G. (Benjamin Guy) Babington translation

Jo. Pistorii Rerum Familiarumque Belgicarum Chronicon magnum. Francof. 1654. fol. p. 319. Here the persons affected are called dansatores, chorisantes. See the whole passage in the Appendix, No. II. Compare Incerti auctoris vetus chronicon Belgicum, Matthæi veteris ævi Analecta. Hag. com. 1738. 4to. Tom. I. p. 51. “Anno MCCCLXXIV. the dansers appeared. Gens impacata cadit, dudum cruciata salvat.” This should be salivat; a quotation from a Latin poem not now extant.

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