Astrology Almanacs and the Early Modern English Calendar

<p><em>Astrology Almanacs and the Early Modern English Calendar</em> 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 <i>Astrology</i> <i>Almanacsand the Early Modern English Calendar</i> 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.</p>