Introduction: curiouser and curiouser -- 'The world do not grow old at all' -- Two worlds -- The decade of the diaries -- Prodigious revolutions -- 'Even private families are ... the best of governments' -- Private lives -- 'I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure' -- Take nobody's word for it -- Pleasure above all things -- Hortulan affairs -- Exotic extravagances -- The affection which we have to books -- Epilogue: and so to bed -- Appendix: the true domestick intelligence
In a culture where reading aloud and dictating were common practices, Clanchy argues, the ostensibly 'non-literate' were able 'to participate in the use of documents'.4 The same held true in early modern England.
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See Don E. Wayne, Penshurst: The Semiotics of Place and the Poetics of History (London, 1984). ... 4 I have consulted Charles Webster, The Great Instauration: Science, Medicine and Reform, 1626–1660 (London, 1975), and Samuel Hartlib ...
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