Download or read book Almanacs written by Alan S. Weber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almanacs were highly influential on popular opinion during the early modern period. They were the least expensive kinds of books and had a practical use as a calendar, literary miscellany, weather guide and advertising medium. The almanacs in this volume contribute to our understanding of women's participation in popular culture, astrology, medicine and prophecy. Sarah Jinner's almanacs for the years 1658, 1659 and 1664, and Mary Holden's almanacs for 1688 and 1689 show a conscious effort to distance themselves from other female religious prophets of the period by relying on the status of astrology as a rational science. The other works in the volume are all attributed to writers who were probably pseudonymous. Dorothy Partridge's The Woman's Almanack for the Year 1694 includes several short articles on chiromancy. The Prophesie of Mother Shipton concerns the prediction of the deaths of Cardinal Wolsey and Thomas Cromwell. The final works in the volume comprise two texts by Shinkin ap Shone which satirize the Welsh people and language, and The Woman's Alamanack by Sarah Ginnor which uses sexual humour to parody the medical advice offered in Jinner's almanacs.

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Download or read book Almanacs written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource for scholars contains facsimile reproductions of almanacs published by and for women during the period 1641-1700. These inexpensive volumes dispensed information on topics such as astrology, medicine, and prophecy and had a tremendous influence on popular opinion throughout the early modern period. Weber's (Cornell U.) introduction provides an overview of each writer's life and work and a summary of important scholarship. A key to difficult-to-read passages completes the volume. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

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