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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Penn State University Press
Henisch, an independent scholar, focuses on High Middle Ages renditions of the "Labors of the Months", a pictorial calendar convention that depicted the traditi
Language: en
Pages: 240
Pages: 240
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-10-08 - Publisher: Oxbow Books
Dates form the backbone of written history. But where do these dates come from? Many different calendars were used in the ancient world. Some of these calendars
Language: en
Pages: 312
Pages: 312
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-04-26 - Publisher: BRILL
Calendars in the Making investigates the Roman and medieval origins of several calendars we are most familiar with today, including the Christian liturgical cal
Language: en
Pages: 256
Pages: 256
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Penn State Press
The Medieval Calendar Year celebrates the pictorial convention known as "The Labors of the Months" and the ways it was used in the Middle Ages. Richly illustrat
Language: en
Pages: 378
Pages: 378
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
The Gregorian calendar reform of 1582, which provided the basis for the civil and Western ecclesiastical calendars still in use today, has often been seen as a