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Astrology Almanacs and the Early Modern English Calendar 1st Edition by Phebe Jensen, Alson Chapman ISBN 9780367609290 0367609290

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ISBN(s): 9780367609290, 0367609290

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Year: 2022

Language: English

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Author: Phebe Jensen, Alson Chapman

Astrology, Almanacs, and the Early Modern English Calendar is a handbook designed to help modern readers unlock the vast cultural, religious, and scientific material contained in early modern calendars and almanacs. It outlines the basic cosmological, astrological, and medical theories that undergirded calendars, traces the medieval evolution of the calendar into its early modern format against the background of the English Reformation, and presents a history of the English almanac in the context of the rise of the printing industry in England. The book includes a primer on deciphering early modern printed almanacs, as well as an illustrated guide to the rich visual and verbal iconography of seasons, months, and days of the week, gathered from material culture, farming manuals, almanacs, and continental prints. As a practical guide to English calendars and the social, mathematical, and scientific practices that inform them, Astrology, Almanacs,and the Early Modern English Calendar is an indispensable tool for historians, cultural critics, and literary scholars working with the primary material of the period, especially those with interests in astrology, popular science, popular print, the book as material artifact, and the history of time-reckoning.

Astrology Almanacs and the Early Modern English Calendar 1st Edition Table of contents:

Introduction

Part I Backgrounds

1.1 Astrology

Ptolemaic judicial astrology

Astrological medicine

Lunar prognostications

Egyptian days

Brontologies

Esdras or dominical letter prognostications

1.2 Calendars

The Julian calendar

The compotus

Late medieval calendars and the folded almanac

Calendars in print: pre-Reformation primers

Calendars in print: prayer book calendars, the Reformation, and the saints

The Gregorian reforms

Clog almanacs and xylographic calendars

1.3 Almanacs and prognostications

Multi-year almanacs

Single sheet imported almanacs

Annual prognostications

Annual book form almanacs and prognostications, 1540–1571

The Watkins and Roberts monopoly, 1571–1603

The English Stock, 1603–1640

The university press almanacs

1.4 Related publications and controversies

Perpetual almanacs

Astrological guides

Controversies

Mock almanacs

Part II How to read an early modern almanac

2.1 The almanac

Physical format

Rubrication

Title pages

Images and borders

Title and year

Compilers

Leap year, meridian, and pole arctic

Epigraphs

Printers and privileges

Declarations

Law terms

Chronologies

Zodiac Man

Elections

The calendar

2.2 The Prognostication

Title page

To the reader

Calculating prognostications

Formatting prognostications

Revolutions and the four seasons

Eclipses

Monthly prognostications

Additional astronomical and astrological content

Planet and star tables

Planetary hours

Additional miscellaneous content

Principal fairs

Calendar history

Travel and geography

Tide tables

Itineraries, rhombs, and latitude

Catalogues of shires and choreographies

Measurement

Astrology Almanacs and the Early Modern English Calendar 1st Edition by Phebe Jensen, Alson Chapman ISBN 9780367609290 0367609290

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