By examining four different forms of writing - the almanac, the financial account, the commonplace book and the parish register - Adam Smyth explores the kinds of texts that sixteenth- or seventeenth-century individuals produced to register their life, in the absence of the later, dominant templates.
By examining four different forms of writing - the almanac, the financial account, the commonplace book and the parish register - Adam Smyth explores the kinds of texts that sixteenth- or seventeenth-century individuals produced to register their life, in the absence of the later, dominant templates.
Adam Smyth is a lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author of 'Profit and Delight': Printed Miscellanies in England, 1649-1682 (2004) and he also edited 'A Pleasing Sinne': Drink and Conviviality in Seventeenth-Century England (2004).
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Acknowledgements Note on references Introduction 1. Almanacs and annotators 2. Financial accounting 3. Commonplace book lives: 'a very applicative story' 4. Entries and exits: finding life in parish registers Conclusion.
Acknowledgements Note on references Introduction 1. Almanacs and annotators 2. Financial accounting 3. Commonplace book lives: 'a very applicative story' 4. Entries and exits: finding life in parish registers Conclusion.
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