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Books on: calendar history

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Mapping Time: The Calendar and Its History

Book by E. G. Richards; Oxford University Press, 1999

Subjects:

Calendar--History, Calendars--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

This fascinating book fully addresses a topic of much general interest by drawing together a wealth of diverse material on the much-trusted (and rarely disputed) phenomenon we know as the calendar. From the fundamentals of astronomy to the world's ancient time-keeping schemes, from the development ...
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This fascinating book fully addresses a topic of much general interest by drawing together a wealth of diverse material on the much-trusted (and rarely disputed) phenomenon we know as the calendar. From the fundamentals of astronomy to the world's ancient time-keeping schemes, from the development of the modern-day calendar to the precise calculation of what happens when (as in, how does one arrive at the date for Easter Sunday?), this is a skillful yet approachable discussion of the calendar from both the historical and contemporary perspectives. Readers will even learn how to perform experiments and calculations for themselves by using such basic techniques as stargazing and simple mathematics.
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The World Calendar: Addresses and Occasional Papers Chronologically Arranged on the Progress of Calendar Reform since 1930

Book by Elisabeth Achelis; G.P. Putnams sons, 1937

Subjects:

Calendar

Collections: History, Entire Library

...VIII CALENDAR HISTORY 73...time-schedule for the world. VIII CALENDAR HISTORY Address before the Sunrise...Once we have learned from history that calendars have always changed with the...
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Calendar and Community: A History of the Jewish Calendar, Second Century Bce-Tenth Century Ce

Book by Sacha Stern; Oxford University Press, 2001

Subjects:

Calendar, Jewish--History

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...and Community -ii- Calendar and Community A History of the Jewish Calendar...4 , The Rabbinic Calendar: Development and History, will trace the development...4 The rabbinic calendar: development and history 155...
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Calendar and Chronology, Jewish and Christian: Biblical, Intertestamental and Patristic Studies

Book by Roger T. Beckwith; Brill, 2001

Subjects:

Bible--Criticism, Interpretation, Etc, Calendar, Jewish, Chronology, Jewish, Church Year--History, Dead Sea Scrolls, Time In The Bible, Time--Biblical Teaching

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...2. Time-Biblical teaching. 3. Calendar, Jewish. 4. Chronology, Jewish...interpretation, etc. 7. Church, year-History. I. Title. BS680.T54 B43 2001...once-for-all events, in the realm of history. Calendars are concerned with days, weeks...
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The Athenian Calendar in the Fifth Century: Based on a Study of the Detailed Accounts of Money Borrowed by the Athenian State, I.G.I, 324

Book by Benjamin Dean Meritt; Harvard University Press, 1928

Subjects:

Calendar, Greek, Chronology, Greek, Finance--Greece--Athens, Inscriptions, Greek--Greece--Athens

Collections: History, Entire Library

...instituted at the time of Kleisthenes, and upon which he builds his calendar system, is a demonstrated impossibility. This is a somewhat...especially when one realizes how many of the dates in Greek history have been accepted on the basis of Keils tables, but we have...

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Journal Articles on: calendar history

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Mary Anne Everett Green and the Calendars of State Papers as a Genre of History Writing

Journal article by Christine L. Krueger; CLIO, Vol. 36, 2006

Subjects:

Calendar--Evaluation, Calendar--History, Calendars--Evaluation, Calendars--History, Green, Mary Anne Everett--Works

Collections: Philosophy, History, Literature, Entire Library

...categorize as social history. These aspects of the Calendars lend additional support...After summarizing the history of the calendaring project under the Commissioners...new genre of empirical history through her calendars. No less than S. R...
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On Cognitive Aspects of Rhetorical Time Reckoning: Metaphor and Image-Schema in Calendrical Divination in Okinawa

Journal article by Sensui Hidekazu; Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 62, 2003

Subjects:

Calendar--History, Calendar--Social aspects, Calendars--History, Calendars--Social aspects, Time perception--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...is widely used for the indication of calendar days, years, and the cardinal directions...years in preference to others, a Taoist calendar is certain to be consulted. However...representation, they could use neither clock nor calendar. Criticizing Bourdieu for making this...
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Red, White, and Blue Letter Days: An American Calendar

Journal article by J. Brooks Flippen; The Historian, Vol. 69, 2007

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Red, White, and Blue Letter Days: An American Calendar (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Brooks Flippen Red, White, and Blue Letter Days: An American Calendar. By Matthew Dennis. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 338. $18.95.) History, professors remind their students, is alive; every generation interprets...
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The Politics of Time in Edmund Spenser's English Calendar

Journal article by Alison A. Chapman; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 42, 2002

Subjects:

Calendars--16th century, English literature, 1485-1603 (English Renaissance period)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Spenser, Edmund--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...familiarity with the terms and history of the calendar reform. Scholars had known...calendar year. He reviews the history of the calendar, recalling that from Julius...further discussion of the calendars history, see Arno Borst, The Ordering...
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New Evidence on the Old Babylonian Calendar and Real Estate Documents from Sippar

Journal article by Samuel Greengus; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 121, 2001

Subjects:

Babylon (Ancient city)--History, Calendars--Research

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Old Babylonian calendar used at Sippar...Mesopotamian History and Environment...the older OB calendars to their rightful place in history. For now, I...Old Babylonian Calendar of Sippar...Mesopotamian History and Environment...

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Magazine Articles on: calendar history

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Making Up for Lost Time

Magazine article by Robert Poole; History Today, Vol. 49, December 1999

Subjects:

Calendar--History, Chronology, Historical--Analysis, United Kingdom--18th century

Collections: History, Entire Library

...reference to these calendar riots. From the old Oxford History of England volume...the new Oxford History of the 1990s...bestseller The Calendar and those of...Ewing Duncan, The Calendar (1998). Robert...is Reader in History at St Martins...
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Countdown to the Beginning of Time-Keeping

Magazine article by Robert Garland; History Today, Vol. 49, April 1999

Subjects:

Calendar, Julian--History, Calendar--History, Time measurement--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...The establishment of an era date was the last element of the calendar to be set in place. Every ancient society had its own idiosyncratic...instance, the Greek historian Thucydides, at the beginning of his History of the Peloponnesian War, wanted to identify the precise year...
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`Do They Know It's Christmas?'

Magazine article by Anthony Bryer; History Today, Vol. 51, January 2001

Subjects:

Byzantine antiquities--Analysis, Calendar--History, Ethiopia--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...actually Cuba -- on October 27th, AD 1492. Too simple. Few calendars of years run from January 1st, and the Byzantine Annus Mundi...Anthony Bryer published his first article on `Trebizond in History Today in February 1960, as an undergraduate at Balliol College...
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Millennial Reflections on an Interdependent World

Magazine article by Donald F. Ottati; The Christian Century, Vol. 116, December 22, 1999

Subjects:

Calendar--History, International relations--Social aspects, Millennialism--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...course, especially given the vagaries of calendar-making. The practice of numbering years...until 1752. Eventually the Gregorian calendar gained nearly worldwide acceptance. But the Muslim calendar remains official in Saudi Arabia and...
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Rare Alignment

Magazine article by Carol Zaleski; The Christian Century, Vol. 122, March 22, 2005

Subjects:

Christian church calendar--History, Christian church calendar--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Good Friday--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, New Year--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...OF MY desk drawers is filled with old calendars, which Ive been saving as a prop for...rationale for this chronology is not pseudo-history, but Christ-centered typology. If we...the mere artifact of an ecclesiastical calendar. But Donne sees nothing arbitrary in...

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Newspaper Articles on: calendar history

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History Found Close to Home; Student Calendar Features Houses

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 11, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

History Found Close to Home; Student Calendar Features Houses. Byline: Arlo...Model Elementary School in Arlington, history lives in the oldest homes and buildings...first-of-its-kind, children-created calendar. "I liked it," said Danielle Frye...
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Formula BMW Pacific Unveils Five-Country Calendar

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, February 2, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...unveiled its strongest calendar to date, with the regions...part of Asian motorsport history at the new SingTel Singapore...on the 2008 Formula One calendar to be run anti-clockwise. For the first time in its history, Formula BMW Pacific will...
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Formula BMW Pacific Unveils Five-Country Calendar

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, February 6, 2008

Subjects:

Sepang International Circuit Sdn. Bhd.--Calendars

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...unveiled its strongest calendar to date, with the regions...part of Asian motorsport history at the new SingTel Singapore...on the 2008 Formula One calendar to be run anti-clockwise. For the first time in its history, Formula BMW Pacific will...
4.

Calendar Girls of the Grainger Trust

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), February 24, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...feel nervous about it but now I just find it funny that Im a calendar girl and my family and friends love it. It is possible Id do...Education: Went to Queen Mary College, University of London, to do History and Political Philosophy. Hobbies: Swimming, running and...
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County Leaders to Bare It All Revealing Calendar Part of Fund-Raiser

Newspaper article by Naomi Dillon; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), August 24, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...county Coroner Marlene Lantz. "I think history is so important," said Lantz, who stood...other county officials in one of the calendars summer scenes. "Its so important to know...idea came from the 2003 British flick, "Calendar Girls," which has already been copied...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: calendar history

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Calendar

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...adopted. The most celebrated is the French Revolutionary calendar . Reckoning the Dates Assigned to Years The Athenian system...chronology is one of the major problems in ancient and medieval history. (The classic work on chronology is that of the Benedictines...
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Ssu-Ma Ch'Ien

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...historian (an office then dealing with astronomy and the calendar) at the court of the Early Han emperor Wu. There he took up a project on history planned by his father and extended it into a history of China and of all regions and peoples known at...
3.

Chinese Dynasties

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Dynasties Dynasty Characteristics and History Hsia c.1994 c.1523 b.c. Semilegendary...Well-developed writing, first Chinese calendar. Great age of bronze casting. Chou...Buddhism introduced. Encyclopedic history, dictionary compiled; porcelain produced...
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Gregoras, Nicephorus

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...and philosophical works is a plan for a calendar reform similar to that effected by Pope...centuries later. His chief book is the Roman History, covering the period from 1204 to 1359...primary sources for 14th-century Byzantine history. The two works complement each other...
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Name

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...very early stage in human history, with single names of persons...Stout, Black), and from the calendar (Noel, May). The Irish...1965); C. M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (rev. ed. 1966); W. O. Hassal, History Through Surnames (1967...

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