Medieval Reckonings of TimeSociety for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1918 - 47 páginas This book provides information about how time was reckoned in time. This includes a discussion of the Julian calendar. |
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24th of February Aquitaine Bedan Indiction Bede begin on January Bologna Byzantine calculated calculus Pisanus called charters Christian chrono Chronologie Church computed coronation counting the days Cycle of 84 date of Easter Day Letters December 25 Diocletian Dionysius Exiguus documents Easter Table elements Emperor England Epacts Equinox Feast of St February 24 feria Ferial Letters Golden Number Greek Indiction H484 STANFORD UNIVERSITY Hence Holy Days Imperial chancery Incarnation Indiction of September inserted Italy Kalends known Lady Day Leap Lunar Cycle Lunar Months lve round March 24 March 25 Middle Ages modes of reckoning Moveable Feasts Neuzeit notaries were employed November Pisa Popes practice PRINTED IN U.S.A Roman round the Earth season September 24 Septuagesima Solar Cycle STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES Sunday after Easter Sunday in Lent Sunday Letter sunrise syllable thirteenth century tion Translation on July U.S.A DEC UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES STANFORD Vernal Equinox Visigoths Week Day
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Página 44 - Pisa, the year 1246 would have already begun there. Continuing his journey westward, he would find himself again in 1245 when he entered Provence, and on arriving in France before Easter (April 16) he would be once more in 1244.
Página 32 - If it is not completely offset, the quantity of such goods at the disposal of the community will be less at the end of the year than it was at the beginning; if it is more than offset, the quantity at the end of the year will be greater.1 The same process of using-up and replacing will occur with consumers
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Página 17 - Cisio Janus Epi sibi vendicat Oc Feli Mar An Prisca Fab Ag Vincen...
Página 9 - Since the day was divided into two periods, each of twelve hours, beginning respectively at sunset and sunrise, the hours were variable.
Página 35 - January 1, 298. It was just about to be revised, but it is unlikely that the change became known in Spain immediately. In that country, it seems, a chronologer drew up a series of cycles to precede that of 298 and to include the presumed date of the Resurrection; and calculating thus backwards, he made his first cycle begin on...
Página 31 - ... before, which was effected. Some circumstances of this second visit will be found in the Trip to Coatham, now in the press. , While travelling between Derby and Burton, I remarked to my daughter, " That we were at " that moment passing over the identical spot " of ground, on the same month of the year, " the same day of the month, the same day of " the week, and hour of the morning, on which " I had travelled over it sixty-eight years be...
Página 28 - January 1, and was no doubt devised in order to make the Indiction correspond with the common reckoning of the year. Of these three varieties the Greek Indiction was regularly employed by the Popes until 1087; after this the usage fluctuates until under Alexander III. (1159-1181) the Bedan Indiction of September 24 became established. From Italy the Indiction passed into the Imperial chancery with the coronation of Charles the Great in 800; first the Greek Indietion, and then alternatively the other...
Página 13 - It was very commonly used in summonses to councils, parliaments, and the like, as a convenient date for attendance when the great festival was over. For this purpose also the Quindene or Quinzaine, a fortnight after the Feast, was sometimes appointed.
Página 44 - If we suppose a traveller to set out from Venice on March 1 , 1245, the first day of the Venetian year, he would find himself in 1244 when he reached Florence; and if after a short stay he went on to Pisa, the year 1246 would already have begun there. Continuing his journey westward he would find himself again in 1245 when he entered Provence and on arriving...