Calendars in Antiquity. Empires, States, and Societies

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Calendars in Antiquity Empires, States, and Societies SACHA STERN 1 ...

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Preface This book is intended not as a catalogue, but as a piece of social history. Calendars are not a technical curiosity, but ...

Leofranc Holford-Strevens, who read and commented on the entire manu- script. An early draft of Chapter 5 was sent to Peter Dero ...

Contents List of Tables ix Introduction 1 PART I. FROM CITY STATES TO GREAT EMPIRES: THERISEOFTHEFIXEDCALENDARS Calendars of An ...

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List of Tables second centuryBCE–second centuryCE 1.1 Ordinary and intercalated years at Athens, late 1.2 Ordinary and intercal ...

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Introduction ‘Since allhuman activities occur in time, the existence of a socialsystem necessitates some organization of time.’^ ...

and datings. The marginalization of this subject, sometimes related to a realor disingenuous phobia of numbers, is what this pre ...

other socialauthorities are never called upon, therefore, to determine it or set it. This calendar is consequently universal, de ...

contrary, why other rulers became willing, during thelast millennium of Antiquity, to abdicate politicalcontroland switch over t ...

expansion, and increasing centralization of the great empires oflate Antiquity (Ch. 6). Both approaches remain, of course, valid ...

the day and the year; the structure of calendars was thus determined by the number of days in the months, and the number of mont ...

the structures that were common to allancient calendars, and for this reason Ishallfocus on days, months, and years. For similar ...

only notable exception were the Romans, whose elaboratefastiwere displayed in sometimes monumental, public, and private inscript ...

the Germans that only tangentiallyrelates to the calendar has been cited as evidence that‘the Germanic’calendar waslunar.^12 Ent ...