Astrology, Almanacs, and the Early Modern English Calendar

ISBN-13: 9781472481832 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 362 str.

Phebe Jensen

Opis

The Early Modern English Calendar demystifies the multiple, often conflicting time schemes that governed the reckoning of the year in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. Through introductory essays and an easily navigated month/day calendar, the book clarifies the various calendrical schemes that governed early modern time, describes how time was literally reckoned by almanacs, prayer books, clocks and scientific instruments, and provides insight into the cultural and iconographical meaning of seasons, months, weeks, and days in the early modern calendar year.

Spis treści

List of figures, Foreward, Acknowledgements, Introduction, PART I: Backgrounds, PART II: How to read an early modern almanac, PART III: Early modern calendars, Bibliography, Index of Saints and Holy Days, Index