1st Edition
Astrology, Almanacs, and the Early Modern English Calendar
By Phebe Jensen
Copyright 2021
362 Pages
103 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
362 Pages
103 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
362 Pages
103 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Phebe Jensen is Professor of English at Utah State University, USA. She is also the author of Religion and Revelry in Shakespeare's Festive World (2008).
Alison A. Chapman (Foreword) is Professor of English at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.
