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.
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.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
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
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
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