Almanacs were the most popular publications in the seventeenth century: it is estimated that there were around 350,000-400,000 printed each year. They ranged widely in format, from single sheets that were made to be pinned on the wall, like a modern calendar, through...
Category: Annotation
Robert Burton, “The Anatomy of Melancholy.”
In 1621 a fairly obscure Oxford academic called Robert Burton published what we might now call a self-help book, titled The Anatomy of Melancholy. The term ‘anatomy’, following on from the idea of dissection, indicates that this will parse melancholy into its...