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The” (Fielding), 215
    masquerades, 186, 213–17, 221, 221, 224
    anonymity of, 213–15
    ceremonious conduct relaxed by, 214
    costumes worn at, 214, 216
    critics of, 216
    cross-dressing at, 216
    declining exclusivity of, 328–29
    public subscription, 214–15
    sexual activity at, 216
    social classes leveled by, 214, 216
    spontaneity in, 215–16
    Masquerades (Holberg), 79
    Massillon, Jean Baptiste, 207
    mastiffs, 95
    ghostly, 19
    as nightwatch, 76
    Mather, Cotton, 30, 149, 177–78, 233, 294
    Matthias, King of Hungary, 226
    May Day, 152, 194
    Mayett, Joseph, 250–51
    Measure for Measure (Shakespeare), xxxii
    melatonin, 290, 304
    Ménétra, Jacques-Louis, 43, 123, 139, 158, 192, 279
    Mercier, Louis-Sébastien, 25, 74, 79, 125, 126, 157, 161, 173, 185, 308, 311
    Merckel, Georg, 269
    Mesopotamia, 4
    meteors, 10
    mezuzas, 99
    mice, see rats and mice
    Middle Ages, xxvii, 10, 30, 32, 45, 56, 62, 64, 74, 84, 104, 191, 283, 318
    demonic beings in, 20–21
    fireraising in, 54–55
    funeral wakes in, 194
    literacy in, 203
    magic charms in, 41
    medical view of sleep in, 263
    nightwatch in, 75
    nobility of, 210
    nocturnal labor in, 155–56
    nocturnal offenses in, 86–87
    privacy in, 151
    religious dissenters in, 228
    Middlesex Journal, 48
    Middleton, Thomas, xxv
    midnight, 46, 138, 139, 157, 257, 301, 321
    as “bull’s noon,” 293
    “first sleep” and, 300–302, 303, 305, 322–23
    Mid-night Thoughts, 303, 308, 317
    Midsummer Eve, 140
    Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Shakespeare), 18, 132
    midwives, 64, 66, 113, 134, 143, 205
    Midy, Isobel, 198
    military engagements, 5, 68–69
    military technology, 327–28
    Milky Way, 130, 339
    Mill, Humphrey, 9, 38, 155
    millers, 161
    private guards of, 165
    Milton, John, 69, 153, 207, 261
    miners, 161
    Misérables, Les (Hugo), 336
    mishaps, nocturnal, 23–28, 170
    dangerous terrain and, 23–25, 123–24
    deaths from, 24, 25–26, 28, 235, 246
    disappearances in, 24–25
    drinking in, 25, 28, 146, 235
    drownings, 23, 25–26, 28, 146, 246
    in the home, 28
    horses in, 26, 137
    losing one’s bearings in, 18, 24–25, 145
    in nocturnal labor, 174
    in streets, 26–28, 29
    “Mistaking in the Darke,” 193
    Mist’s Weekly Journal, 215
    Mitchel, Richard, 142
    Mitchell, Betty, 194
    mites, 288
    Moby-Dick (Melville), 104
    Modena, Leon, 317
    Moduco, Battista, 319
    Moerloose, Isabella de, 120
    Mohocks gang, 225–26
    Montaigne, Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de, 296
    Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, Barone de, 222
    Moody, Robert, 132
    moon, 73, 88, 127, 128, 203, 270
    in almanacs, 129
    eclipses of, 10
    harvest, 171
    hunter’s, 171
    nocturnal excursions and, 127–29, 138, 144, 146, 329
    nocturnal labor aided by, 162, 171, 172, 173, 174
    as parish lantern, 128
    phases of, 68, 128–29, 171, 238, 329
    physical health influenced by, 12, 13, 128
    telling time by, 138, 236
    theft and, 39–40
    mooncursers, 125
    moon-men, 125
    moonshine, 242–43
    moonwort, 41
    Moravia, 19
    mordbrenner, 54, 257
    morgensterns, 77
    Morris, Jane, 163
    Moryson, Fynes, 43, 61, 75, 111, 200, 247, 271
    Mosaic law, 87
    Moscow, 117
    fires in, 48, 49
    murders in, 43–44
    street barriers in, 64
    Most Pleasuante Arte of the Interpretacion of Dreames, The (Hill), 313
    Mountfort, William, 286
    Mowfitt, William, 144
    Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare), 82
    Muchembled, Robert, 20
    Murant, Madame de, 221–22
    “murder,” as cry for help, 115–16
    murder, murderers, 6, 32, 33, 34, 306–7, 329
    of domestic intruders, 87–88, 95, 199
    drinking in, 46
    impulsive, 45–46
    incidence of, 42
    magic rituals of, 41
    marital, in communal sleep, 283–84
    motives for, 44
    personal vendettas and, 44
    by robbers, 34, 35–36
    weapons used in, 43
    “Mus Rusticus,” 168
    My Father’s Life (Restif de la Bretonne), 115, 180

    Naish, Thomas, 294
    Napier, Richard, 290
    Naples, 72, 160
    narcolepsy, 267
    Nashe, Thomas, 7, 15–16, 56, 287, 312
    National Institute of Mental Health, 303–4, 322–23
    nation states, 45
    Natural History of