Episode 6: When the Church Stopped Dancing -Morris Dancing, Puritan Festivity Wars, and the Governance of Pleasure (1540–1660)
Savonarola and Martin Luther had already demonstrated something unsettling about organized culture: songs could gather people, move them, and turn participation into political force. Episode 5 followed that struggle through music. In England, the same problem soon appeared somewhere more physical. The question moved from what people sang together to where they gathered, how they…