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From Thomas Hyll's Perfite Ordering of bees (1574) to Moses Rusden's Full Discovery of Bees (1679) early modern England saw the publication of many texts on bees and beekeeping. From the scholastic to the practical they are a series of sites in which the long held fascination with parallels between bee and human societies and politic are rehearsed and transformed, the pursuit of what would come to be characterised as scientific knowledge accelerates, and the symbiotic relationships between knowledge, reason, and commerce were gradually established. This essay surveys a selection of a century of early modern English beekeeping texts, focussing in particular on three central points: the ethics of killing such virtuous creatures for their honey, the management of swarming and its economic implications, the allegorical relations established in antiquity but revised through the century as know knowledge, and new ways of knowing became more and more established.
Author(s): Hogg B
Editor(s): Richards J; Smith O; Sousa-Garcia T
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: Published
Book Title: Bee-ing Human: Inspired by Charles Butler's 'The Feminine Monarchy'
Year: 2025
Acceptance date: 28/08/2025
Publisher: Newcastle University
Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne
