{"product_id":"9781904846048","title":"The Feminine Monarchie or THE HISTORY OF BEES","description":"\u003cp\u003eCharles Butler\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1623\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Feminine Monarchie is an early and remarkable work of English natural\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehistory, first published in 1609, and written by a scholarly country parson of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewide ranging interests. Like the later Gilbert White of Selborne, a distant relation,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles Butler had a deep curiosity about the natural world and recorded his\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ediscoveries methodically, in keeping with the growing scientific mood of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eseventeenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eButler was the author of several books on subjects as diverse as music,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egrammar, logic, and church law. He was also a noted beekeeper and The\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeminine Monarchie is the classic English beekeeping text, earning Butler the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etitle ‘father of English bee-keeping’. The book explores the world of the honey\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebee with a keen intelligence, and makes implicit reference to Elizabeth I’s long\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ereign as England’s female monarch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the first new edition of The Feminine Monarchie to be published\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efor over three hundred years, and contains a new introduction, as well as\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eannotations and a glossary of the more obscure words used by Butler. The\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003espelling and grammar have been modernised throughout. This edition has been\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprepared from the 1623 edition, which includes Butler’s famous ‘Bees Madrigal’.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Owen is vicar of two rural parishes in Hampshire, in the South Downs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNational Park, thirty miles from Butler’s parish of Wootton St Lawrence in the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esame county. He keeps bees, poultry and goats and is rural advisor in the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiocese of Portsmouth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peacock Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47062828548336,"sku":"9781904846048","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781904846048_p0.jpg?v=1763614201","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781904846048","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}