The Dionycian Impulse in the Middle Ages

In the german middle ages, too, singing and dancing crowds, ever increasing in number, whirled themselves from place to place under this dionycian impulse. In these janc in these dancers of saint john and saint vitus, we rediscover the bocket choruses of the greeks,. as far back as babylon and the orgiastic sachaea. There are some who, from obtuseness or lack of experience, turn away from such phenomena as from folk diseases with t or pity born of the consciousness of their own healthy mindedness. Such poor wretches have no idea how corpselike and ghostly their so called healthy minded