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Strasbourg, summer of AD 1518: hot stone underfoot, river damp rising off the Ill, and a woman recorded as Frau Troffea steps into the street and begins to dance. Not for joy, not for coin—until her feet split, her stockings turn dark, and the crowd’s laughter dies into a kind of fear. By the second day the rhythm spreads, body to body, as if the city itself has caught a fever. Then the clock starts, because this is not only a mystery of minds and muscles; it’s a test of power.

This outbreak is reconstructed like a crime scene, with a city ordinance treated as Exhibit A. Magistrates issue decrees under pressure, physicians reach for humors and “heated blood,” priests diagnose possession and saintly wrath, hospitals record the wreckage, and later chroniclers argue over what they witnessed. Each document is a fingerprint left by authority when bodies become ungovernable—and each decision can either lower the temperature or pour oil on it.

The evidence is set against competing explanations: divine punishment versus medicine, famine-and-fear mass psychogenic illness versus the seductive claim of poisoned rye and ergot—an argument that falters when cross-examined against symptoms, timing, and the social geography of panic. In the end, the most unsettling question isn’t why they danced, but why the state answered suffering with logistics—and how a choice made in days could decide deaths for weeks.

When a crisis turns citizens into a moving, collapsing multitude, does a government heal, punish, ritualize, or outsource blame to heaven?

Main Video Chapters:
00:00 And over all of it a...
05:55 The physicians trained in humors reportedly...
07:15 Not because they enjoy the spectacle...
10:17 Bodies can express terror deprivation and...
12:52 You can beat a dancer into...
15:11 And every onlooker is a potential...
16:59 In that frame the council’s early...
18:20 Supernatural punishment explains meaning and...
20:32 The real story is governance under...
23:40 No germ theory a hungry population...

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