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This is an analysis of the main sources on the Kölbigk dance story recorded in eleventh-century sources. It seeks to show that the dance is described in these sources as an occurrence taking place amidst the transformation of the village structure from settlements with a largely integrated population into settlements wherein segregated groups settle together.

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The article demonstrates the need to pull together sources from a wide variety of text sorts to uncover processes of social transformation in the eleventh century.

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This page is a summary of: Folgen einer Ekstase, Historische Anthropologie, August 2004, Brill Deutschland GmbH,
DOI: 10.7788/ha.2004.12.2.264.
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