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The Oxford Companion to the Year (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Companion to the Year (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Companions
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In 1864 the great Edinburgh publisher and antiquarian Robert
Chambers produced his Book of Days, a guide to the months, feast
days and seasonal celebrations which punctuated the British
calendar. This is the modern equivalent aand will be invaluable to
historians and antiquarians, and a fascinating work of reference
for the rest of us. The first half of the book provides a
day-by-day account of the year, chronicling the history, folklore
and literature associated with each one. The second half offers a
broader study of time-reckoning and the development of the calendar
over the centuries. Continental material is included as well as
British, dates of religious significance are combined with those of
civil importance, and particular attention is paid to the way in
which Easter is calculated. All in all, a rich, absorbing mine of
information. (Kirkus UK)
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 calendar year, and a section on the measurement of time and the calculation of movable feasts. It is illustrated with 16 pages of black-and-white plates.
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