…thor, although often referring to occurrences long after Stow’s death. What the reader of to-day wants, is the original work as it left the hands of the veteran antiquary, or as nearly as the change of spelling allows, because this gives him a vivid picture of Elizabethan London—…

…ted to the emperor was connected with the dynamics of weather and other omens already in the Early Han period (and before).3 Dong Zhongshu (179-104 BCE) for instance stated: “When the ruler is righteous, the primordial forces (yin and yang) are in harmonious relationship with eac…

…nd to feede the auditors that are coming in by litle and litle an houre before, readeth a spiritual booke [...] and so filleth up al voyde time with blessed matter of meditation and exhortation. To these exhortations come in the weeke dayes men of good calling both spiritual and …

…and structured in advance by the intelligible world in which he finds himself already thrown, man relates to other beings in a pre-conceptual way by fore-listening and fore-seeing. Described at times as a knowing « with the heart », this fore-seeing differs from the traditional l…