...This chapter explores attitudes to time and experiences of time in the eighteenth century. It looks at ‘light and darkness’, showing how the night was increasingly colonised by light; at almanacs and calendars which in a multiplicity of ways framed people’s experience of time; at the spread...

... of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Weather journals were a paradoxical vehicle for self-development. Seasonal weather prognostics were rooted in a heterogeneous collection of calendar customs and lore. Recording the weather on a uniform scale of time did not imply that the seasons were disregarded...

...The Mexica developed a highly sophisticated religious system characterized by a large pantheon and numerous myths and rituals. Calendars and architecture expressed concepts of time and space. Myths describe human activities that had to be accompanied by the appropriate rituals Reciprocal...

...The Introduction covers Ovid’s life and the composition of the Fasti and the various Roman calendars. It also summarizes and discusses the Fasti’s connections to Metamorphoses. The Fasti re-tells several stories that are also told...

... and the impact on them of the developing cash economy; to the influence of drama; and to festival calendars and their evidence for divergences in dates between city and deme celebrations of the same festival. New suggestions are made about the transfer of cult funds to the Acropolis in the years preceding...

...The introduction to this book sets the stage with some framing remarks on the significance of computus in the context of medieval culture and on the ‘calendar problem’ as confronted by medieval scholars. It provides several examples to highlight the importance of calendrical...

... as spectators Aetion Greek painter Alexander the Great calendars local Greek choruses chronology Panhellenic and Greek Crown Games Cleisthenes tyrant of Sikyon commerce at Greek Crown Games communications at Greek Crown Games cult and competition Greek military aspect of athletics Philip II king...

...This article reviews archaeological evidence of Mesoamerican calendars and archaeoastronomy. Most Mesoamerican calendars measure a year as eighteen months, each consisting of twenty days, with an added month of only five unlucky days. To reckon deep time, the Maya created the longest Mesoamerican...

...–17. Hamburg, Germany: Hamburg University Press. Kotyk, Jeffrey.   2017 c. “ Iranian elements in Late-Tang Buddhist astrology. ” Asia Major 30, no. 1: 25–58. Kotyk, Jeffrey.   2020 a. “ The Chinese Buddhist approach to science: The Case of astronomy and calendars...

...This chapter analyses commemorations of saints in the Liturgy of St James. Because of the complexity of liturgical calendars, several case studies are examined in order to give the reader a sense of how commemorations changed within the calendar. Closer attention is paid to John the Baptist, James...

... Diocesan Church Building and Endowment Aid Society 1862 Carlisle Diocesan Church Extension Society 1864 Bishop of Durham’s Special Church Building Fund Sources: diocesan calendars; Parry, ‘Incorporated Church Building Society’, 291–3. The italicized societies are those...

... presented to the subjects of the empire, and at the ways in which the mass of the population made use of the data that li put before them. calendars dates Sima Qian 司馬遷 c 145 or 135–86 BC Sima Tan 司馬談 c 165–110 BCE day s History of the Eastern Han dynasty Hou Han shu後漢書 Fan Ye hui晦...

... the handling of time for the events discussed (calendars, dates, and hours of the day and night). celestial inclinations: A Life of Augustus tells the story of the successful career and reign of the first emperor of Rome from a perspective that has been overlooked in scholarly...

... identity and religion before this period, particularly the foundation myths, and explores their reception in the political climate of the fifth century bc. Next it lays out the sparse evidence for the Rhodian synoecism itself, and traces its impact on the religious calendar, the religious...

... calendars outlines the 260-day divination count and the 365-day year divided into 20-day veintenas. Chapter 1 also explains how different layouts of the 260-day divination count had different directional associations, as did the yearbearers naming the year in the 52-year cycle. The Calendar Round dates...

...The Gregorian calendar reform of 1582, which provides the basis for the present-day Western civil calendar, has often been portrayed as a triumph of early modern scientific culture and an expression of papal ambition in the wake of the Counter-Reformation. Much less attention has been paid to our...

... rituals and celebrations namaz five obligatory daily prayers prayer beads tespih Ramadan Šehidska dova prayer for martyrs takvim Islamic calendar temporal orientations teravija namaz evening prayer during Ramadan tespih prayer beads Bringa Tone critical events Gregorian calendar Hadžijahić M...

..., experienced such a rapid and dramatic appropriation of this new language, the main vehicles of which were annual almanacs (calendars) and prognostications (practicas), especially those printed in the vernacular. Produced most often by university professors and city physicians, these common ephemera reflected...

... centered objects southern England solstices and equinoxes cultural astronomy temporal cognition calendars orientation astrophysics archaeoastronomy Today, our society is imbued, among other things, with the importance we give to precision, especially precision in time ( Canales, 2009 ). Leaving...

... collection of month lengths and related data (BM 40277). (Photo © The Trustees of the British Museum) This article describes observational and theoretical calendars in ancient Mesopotamia. Some of the earliest cuneiform sources attest to calendar systems for the reckoning of days for administrative...