Astrology and the Popular Press

Author: Bernard Capp
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0571241913

Astrology and the Popular Press: English Almanacs 1500–1800

Apart from the Bible, almanacs were the most influential and widely dispersed for of literature in Tudor and Stuart England. Download Astrology and the Popular Press: English Almanacs 1500–1800 from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. At their zenith in the later seventeenth century, they sold at a rate of 400,000 copies a year. They were read by many people who read little else, and the works of Shakespeare and Jonson, among others, have numerous references to them. Professor Capp's fascinating book (Faber, 1979) is the first to study their history in depth. It is full of vivid detail, and shows clearly how relevant they were to almost every aspect of life, social, intellectual, religious, political. As well as being a powerful force in revolutionary times, they played a central part in spreading scientific progress and medical learning, and in the Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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