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The Oxford companion to the year

Author: Bonnie J Blackburn; Leofranc Holford-Strevens
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
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This text includes quotations from literature, letters, and diary extracts, even recipes, to illustrate the meaning of the calendar throughout history.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Bonnie J Blackburn; Leofranc Holford-Strevens
ISBN: 0192142313 9780192142313
OCLC Number: 41834121
Description: xvii, 937 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: PART I: THE BULK OF THE BOOK CONSISTS OF A JANUARY-DECEMBER LISTING, DIVIDED BY MONTH AND THEN BY DAY. EACH MONTH BEGINS WITH INFORMATION, FOR EXAMPLE ETYMOLOGY OF THE NAME AND QUOTATIONS, DEALING WITH THE MONTH IN GENERAL, AND EACH DAY CONTAINS INFORMATION ON HOLIDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES, SAINTS AND THEIR LEGENDS, HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL CUSTOMS, AND RELEVANT QUOTATIONS FROM HISTORICAL AND MODERN TEXTS. PART I ENDS WITH A DISCUSSION OF SEASONS, MONTHS, TERMS, WEEKS, AND DAYS IN GENERAL, A SECTION ON THE WESTERN CHURCH AND THE ORTHODOX CHURCH YEARS, AND FINALLY SECULAR HOLIDAYS NOT TIED TO A SPECIFIC DAY (E.G. THANKSGIVING); PART II: A MORE TECHNICAL SECTION ON CALENDARS, THROUGHOUT HISTORY AND ACROSS THE WORLD, AND CHRONOLOGY, INCLUDING COMPUTUS
Responsibility: Bonnie Blackburn & Leofranc Holford-Strevens.
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A storehouse of useful, interesting, and curious knowledge about time and its reckoning, based on the premise that every day is memorable. The book is in two parts: an authoritative survey of the  Read more...

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