The Medieval Dancing Plague with Eleanor Janega
There's no such thing as the Dark Ages
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38m
When people think of Medieval diseases, hysterical dancing is not usually what first comes to mind. Yet in 14th and 15th century Germany, dozens of ordinary people claimed to be infected by the ‘dancing plague’. What was this mysterious phenomenon? What caused it? And was it even a real disease?
Strap in as Dr. Anthony Delaney and Dr. Maddy Pelling from History Hit's After Dark podcast speak to Dr. Eleanor Janega to discover why these people just couldn’t stop dancing.
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