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An animated almanac for the modern world
Discover why Thomas Coleman wanted to make a medieval folding almanac relevant to the modern world and see the film for yourself.
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The enigma of the medieval folding almanac
With its combination of rich, portable data and high-end style, this folding almanac could have been the medieval equivalent of the latest iPhone.
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Medieval doodles
Fish, lute players and defaced demons: marginal doodles in some of Europe’s first printed books provide a tantalising glimpse into the late-medieval mind.
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The Protestant almanack : for the year since [brace] the creation of the world 5695, the incarnation of Jesus Christ 1689 ... : being the first year after bissextile or leap-year, wherein the bloody aspects, fatal oppositions, diabolical conjunctions, and pernicious revolutions of the papacy ... are described ... calculated according to art, for the meridian of Babylon, where the pope is elevated an hundred and fifty degrees above all reason, right and religion ... and may without sensible errour indifferently serve the whole papacy / by Philoprotest.
Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698Date: 1689- Books
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A pronostycacyon [sic] of Erra Pater, Doctor in Astronomye, and phesyke : profytable for to kepe the body in helth, [and] Ptholome sayth the same.
Erra PaterDate: [1545?]]- Books
Astrology and the popular press : English almanacs, 1500-1800 / Bernard Capp.
Capp, B. S.Date: 1979- Books
English almanacs, astrology and popular medicine : 1550-1700 / Louise Hill Curth.
Curth, Louise Hill.Date: 2007- Books
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The country almanack, for the year, 1676, being bissextile, or leap-year : suited to the several capacities, humours, and occasions of gentlemen, scholars, travellers, and husband men, &c. and accompanied with remarks in verse, upon every month in the year, pleasant, and not scurrilous : to which are subjoyned, many additionals, old and new, delightful to be read and useful to be known.
Martindale, Adam, 1623-1686Date: 1676