A description of daily life during the #month of #July in #earlymodern England
From Nicholas #Breton's Fantastickes, 1626.
Read by Peter Kenny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm2SoVTc7_s&ab_channel=Passamezzo

Image from the #trevelyonmiscellany ( #Folger MS V.b.232), c1608

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A description of the #month of #May in #earlymodern England.
From Nicholas Breton's Fantastickes, 1626.

Read by Peter Kenny

Image from the Trevelyon Miscellany (Folger MS V.b.232), c1608

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZYJPfZlPk0&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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A description of the #month of #April in #earlymodern England.
From Fantasticks, Nicholas Breton, 1626.

Read by Peter Kenny

Image from the #Trevelyon #Miscellany (Folger MS V.b.232), c1608

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBWPcooYTZM&ab_channel=Passamezzo

A #miniature, probably taken from a #bookofhours, showing the Feast of #Candlemas (2 February), with villagers taking candles to the #church to be blessed.
Simon Bening, c1550

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A description of the #month of #February in #earlymodern Britain.
From Nicholas Breton's Fantastickes, 1626.
Read by Peter Kenny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybu74vcsKM4&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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The #month of #November.
From Nicholas Breton's Fantastickes, 1626.
Read by Peter Kenny

Image from the Trevelyon Miscellany, 1608

#earlymodern #earlymodernseasons #earlymodernliterature #recordingartist #17thcentury #seventeenthcentury #nicholasbreton #seasons #laboursofthemonths #seasonal #months
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BD9ONrqO_M&ab_channel=Passamezzo