...Laura Williamson Ambrose This article focuses on almanac travel diaries, exploring both how and why seventeenth-century English readers used books of time as books of space. It seeks to broaden studies in early modern travel writing by examining the unique, nonnarrative marginalia that typify...

...Erika T. Lin This essay models a method for unearthing performance traces in texts that seem on the surface to be strictly literary. Centering on Thomas Dekker's The Raven's Almanac , a compilation of stories akin to those in early modern jest books, it analyzes a bawdy tale about a friar...

...- ern texts. The seventeenth-century almanac writer Joseph Chamberlaine attests to the calendar’s prosaic utility when he asks, “what man nowadays, that hath any dealings in the worlds affairs but hath need of a Kalendar?”84 In the 1563 edition of Acts and Monuments, the calendar is followed...

... Michael Cornett, Managing Editor Duke University Press Durham, North Carolina 2013 Volume 43 Index Ambrose, Laura Williamson Travel in Time: Local Travel Writing and Seventeenth-Century English Almanacs  419 – 443...

..., fields, and public squares. At the same time, the mountebank traversed England's textual and dramatic realms, appearing in fear-mongering medical polemic, poetry, almanacs, masques, and plays—but not, notably, in scripts or transcriptions of mountebank performances. 5 As a traveling performer...

... sewn with a center stitch to their proper places in the book. As with stitched bindings, however, an imperative to sew in producing these books could translate to tactical and varied forms of sewing among consumers. An early printed almanac at the Folger Shakespeare Library contains in its back...

... that Thomas Dekker's pageant account can only enact the “magnificent entertainment” by erasing the facts of the actual performance and substituting a fictive text. Lin, in her turn, reads Dekker's The Raven's Almanac as a “nontheatrical” text deeply embedded in a culture of festive performance...

... the efforts of reformist editors to appro- priate Middle English texts, claiming that they offer a validating precedent for their own beliefs.15 Ruth Luborsky’s studies of the visual layout of the Calender and Abigail Shinn’s work on the poem’s generic relationship to the almanac also emphasize its...

..., Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, 2020. 248 pp. $99.00. Jensen, Phebe. Astrology, Almanacs, and the Early Modern English Calendar . Foreword by Alison A. Chapman. London: Routledge, 2021. xxiv, 322 pp., 26 color plates, 73 black-and-white figs., 2 charts. $159.00. Geltner, G. Roads to Health...

... Oversight (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2010), 10 – 13 (Jones excludes maps from his study); R. C. Simmons, “ABCs, Almanacs, Ballads, Chapbooks, Popular Piety, and Textbooks,” in The Cam- bridge History of the Book in Britain, Volume IV: 1557 – 1695, ed. John Barnard...

... hunted up and down, has been at court, And the long porter broke his head across there; He had rather see the devil; for this he says, He ne’er grew up so tall with fasting-days. I would not, for the price of all my almanacs, The guard had took him there, they’d ha...

...; Lateinische Sprache und Literatur des Mittelalters, vol. 10 (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1981). Laurel Braswell points out that the title Somniale Danielis was also used for lunaries and other almanac-type works. See Laurel Braswell, “Utilitarian...