Astrology and the Popular Press - English Almanacs 1500-1800

Informationen zum Autor Bernard Capp is Professor of History at the University of Warwick, where he has taught since 1968. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the author of five books: The Fifth Monarchy Men (Faber, 1972), Astrology and the Popular Press: English Almanacs 1500-1800 (Faber, 1979); Cromwell's Navy (OUP, 1989), The World of John Taylor the Water-poet (OUP, 1994) and When Gossips Meet: Women, Family and Neighbourhood in Early Modern England (OUP, 2003). He is currently writing England's Culture Wars: Puritan Attempts to Impose Godly Reformation and Discipline on the English People in the Wake of the Civil Wars . Zusammenfassung Apart from the Bible, almanacs were the most influential and widely dispersed for of literature in Tudor and Stuart England. This book presents a study of their history in depth. It shows how relevant they were to almost each aspect of life, social, intellectual, religious, and political.

Product details

• Authors: Bernard Capp, Capp Bernard
• Assisted by: Bernar Capp (Editor), Bernard Capp (Editor)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.05.2008
• EAN: 9780571241910
• ISBN: 978-0-571-24191-0
• No. of pages: 460
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 33 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History, Astrology, British & Irish history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Yearbooks, annuals, almanacs, Almanacs; Faber Finds; Journalism; Revolution