At Day's Close: Night in Times Past by A. Roger Ekirch Read Free Book Online

Post, 294
    Lochwd, Bardus, 197
    Locke, John, 3, 5, 270, 296, 301
    London:
    abandoned infants in, 237
    apprentice population of, 232
    aristocratic gangs in, 225–26
    arson by burglars in, 54
    barred windows in, 93
    broken pavements of, 27
    burglaries in, 37–38, 39, 54
    gates of, 62
    Great Fire of 1666 in, 10, 49, 62
    homosexuals in, 230
    increasing crime in, 330
    jostled pedestrians in, 45
    lantern lighting mandated in, 67, 68
    linkboys of, 125
    livestock marketed in, 173
    lunatics in, 12
    Metropolitan Police of, 332
    murders in, 44
    nightwatch of, 75–76, 79–80, 82
    nocturnal excursions in, 129, 133–34
    plague in, 167–68, 230, 314
    pleasure gardens of, 212
    population of, 26
    private guards in, 165
    prostitutes in, 65, 244
    public celebrations in, 69
    public masquerades in, 214–15
    robberies in, 34, 36, 40
    sinister streets of, 141
    smuggled goods in, 242
    street lighting of, 72, 73
    watch-houses of, 77
    London Chronicle, 188, 267
    London Evening Post, 162–63
    London Magazine, 87
    “London Prentice, The,” 201
    London Spy, 135
    Long, Thomas, 158
    “Long Margery,” 17
    Louder, John, 139–40
    Louis XI, King of France, 67, 156
    Louis XIII, King of France, 120
    Louis XIV, King of France, 60, 70, 73, 104, 211, 280
    Loutherbourg, Philip James de, 327
    Love and a Bottle (Farquhar), 301–2
    “Loves Downfall,” 220
    Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare), 8
    Lowe, Roger, 198
    lower classes, 188, 191–92, 208–9, 227–28, 329–40
    beds of, 276–79, 287, 296, 297, 299
    black magic of, 238–40
    broken sleep of, 304, 306–7
    debtors of, 237–38
    depression in, 290
    disease victims of, 229–30, 231
    dreams of, 317–20
    drinking houses of, 236–37, 244; see also alehouses
    fatigue of, 186, 265, 280, 285, 286, 297, 298–99, 308
    libertines and, 218–20, 222–23
    nightdress of, 270–71
    nobility’s envy of, 214, 216, 218–19
    organized violence of, 256–58
    paupers, 231–37
    petty crimes of, 237–52, 306
    political dissenters, 228, 231
    religious dissenters, 228–29, 231
    sleep deprivation of, 298–99
    sleep disturbances of, 290, 297–99
    social activities of, 177–84, 235–37
    social oversight of, 150–51
    unlit streets of, 335–36
    young people, 232–35, 241–42; see also youth gangs
    see also labor, nocturnal
    Low-Life (Legg), 289, 295
    low-pads, 35
    Lucerna, La (Pona), 244
    Lucrece, 8
    Lucretius, 119
    Luddites, 257, 258
    Lull, Ramón, 301
    lunacy, 12, 13
    Lunar Society of Birmingham, 329
    Lusts Dominion, 192
    Lutherans, 213
    lying-out, 232–33, 255

    Macbeth (Shakespeare), 21, 91, 286
    McCurrie, Duncan, 198
    maces, 77
    Machiavelli, Niccolò, 205
    Mack, Georg, the Elder, 11
    Macpherson, James, 179
    Madrid, 27, 34, 93
    magic, xxvi, 326
    for abused women, 183
    amulets, 98, 99, 142
    in bedtime rituals, 272–73
    black, 238–40
    Church’s banning of, 63
    criminals’ use of, 41–42
    curses in, 238–39
    dreams and, 320
    excrement in, 41
    in excursion protection, 142–43
    for fireplace protection, 99–100, 270
    folk, 97–101
    insurgents’ use of, 257–58
    in interval of wakefulness, 307
    invisibility bestowed by, 151
    light and, 100–101
    of midwives, 143
    of millers, 161
    as property of stillborn infants, 41–42
    as protection against witches, 143
    of servants, 239
    of shepherds, 171–72
    of slaves, 99, 143, 239, 257–58
    in storytelling, 179, 180
    of thieves, 41–42
    for treasure hunting, 238
    of witches, 21, 307
    against wolves, 172
    Mailu, 4
    Maimonides, 206
    Maison Rustique, or, the Countrey Farme, 12, 170
    malarial fevers, 14
    mandrake, 41
    Manners of the Age, The, 280–81
    manure, see dung
    Manx language, 162
    Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso, 335
    markets, public, 176–77
    consumerism and, 326–27
    livestock brought to, 172–73, 176, 327
    pilfered goods in, 241
    Marlborough, Francis, 33
    Marseilles, 28, 78
    Marston, John, 253
    Martin, John “Michael,” 257
    Martin, Jonathan, 122
    Mascall, Charles, 36
    masons, 157, 161
    Masque of Queenes, The (Jonson), 292
    “Masquerade,