{"title":"Charles Butler","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"butler-parson-musicologist-beekeeper-butler","title":"Butler: Parson, Musicologist, Beekeeper, Compiled and Edited by The Butler 400 Foundation","description":"\u003cp\u003eFour hundred years ago, a parson in the small rural parish of Wootton St Lawrence in North Hampshire made an impact on beekeeping and left a legacy that still resonates today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book celebrates the life and legacy of Rev Charles Butler, a man now widely recognised as the father of English beekeeping. Articles from 13 authors explore the impact of a man who was not only a parson, musicologist and beekeeper but also a logician, grammarian and author whose seminal work was The Feminine Monarchie.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo celebrate the 400th anniversary of Butler’s landmark publication, this book explores Butler’s beekeeping style, the forage then available to his bees, the political and economic context of his beekeeping, even Butler’s bee music and puts in context why parsons were so influential in studies of the natural world. As one author states, The Feminine Monarchie is a ‘book for all times’ and carries lessons for beekeepers and those fascinated by the natural world today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Butler stained-glass memorial window in the Church of St Lawrence, installed in 1954, is an outstanding stunning artistic celebration of Butler’s life, so this too is explored and the book finishes with a walk around the parish outlining the rich history and sense of place of a remarkable small settlement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI hope readers enjoy this book and expect they will be tempted to visit an unlikely historic site that even has links to world-renowned author Jane Austen and the father of modern ecology Rev Gilbert White.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Because reading ‘The Feminine Monarchie’ reveals rather little about the place, the time, and the social life of Charles Butler, it is most fortunate that members of the Basingstoke and District Beekeepers’ Association have written and published [this] lovely book … It provides a splendid view of his world.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e– \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTom Seeley\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"ALIUS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53955136979292,"sku":"563","price":14.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0856\/5863\/2540\/files\/0563_a922e0c8-cac4-47f1-833e-6da2dcc80b6f.webp?v=1754042785"},{"product_id":"the-feminine-monarchie-owen","title":"The Feminine Monarchie by Rev. John Owen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Feminine Monarchie\u003c\/em\u003e is an early and remarkable work of English natural history, first published in 1609, and written by a scholarly country parson of wide ranging interests. Like the later Gilbert White of Selborne, a distant relation, Charles Butler had a deep curiosity about the natural world and recorded his discoveries methodically, in keeping with the growing scientific mood of the seventeenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eButler was the author of several books on subjects as diverse as music, grammar, logic, and church law. He was also a noted beekeeper and The Feminine Monarchie is the classic English beekeeping text, earning Butler the title ‘father of English bee keeping’. The book explores the world of the honey bee with a keen intelligence, and makes implicit reference to Elizabeth I’s long reign as England’s female monarch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the first new edition of The Feminine Monarchie to be published for over three hundred years, and contains a new introduction, as well as annotations and a glossary of the more obscure words used by Butler. The spelling and grammar have been modernised throughout. This edition has been prepared from the 1623 edition, which includes Butler’s famous ‘Bees Madrigal’. John Owen is vicar of two rural parishes in Hampshire, in the South Downs National Park, thirty miles from Butler’s parish of Wootton St Lawrence in the same county. He keeps bees, poultry and goats and is rural advisor in the Diocese of Portsmouth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"NORTHERN BEE BOOKS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53959376765276,"sku":"46","price":17.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0856\/5863\/2540\/files\/0046_fda87d09-acfd-4085-8270-3490ae7a4ed0.webp?v=1754042783"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.northernbeebooks.co.uk\/en-lb\/collections\/charles-butler.oembed","provider":"NORTHERN BEE BOOKS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}