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• Introduction
• Part I: 1. God's time
• 2. The time of death
• 3. Telling time
• 4. Waiting
• 5. Time and time again
• 6. Making time visible
• 7. At the same time
• 8. Timelessness and the now
• 9. Life times
• 10. The rape of time
• Part II: 11. Beginning, again: Nonnus' paraphrase of the Gospel of John
• 12. The eternal return: Nonnus' Dionysiaca
• 13. Regulation time: Gregory's Christmas Day
• 14. Day to day
• 15. "We are the times": Making history Christian
• Coda: Writing in the time of sickness.
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Time is integral to human culture. Over the last two centuries people's relationship with time has been transformed through industrialisation, trade and technology. But the first such life-changing transformation - under Christianity's influence - happened in late antiquity. It was then that time began to be conceptualised in new ways, with discussion of eternity, life after death and the end of days. Individuals also began to experience time differently: from the seven-day week to the order of daily prayer and the festal calendar of Christmas and Easter. With trademark flair and versatility, world-renowned classicist Simon Goldhill uncovers this change in thinking. He explores how it took shape in the literary writing of late antiquity and how it resonates even today. His bold new cultural history will appeal to scholars and students of classics, cultural history, literary studies, and early Christianity alike.
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• Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations
• 1 Introduction 1.1 Definitions and Conventions 1.2 Contents of the Book
• 2 Status Quaestionis 2.1 History of Scholarship 2.2 History of the Babylonian New Year Festival 2.3 The Reconstructed Twelve Days 2.4 Function and Meaning 2.5 If There Are Altars, There Must Be Gods: Problems and Questions
• 3 Textual Sources for the Babylonian New Year Festival During the First Millennium BCE 3.1 The Neo-Assyrian Period 3.2 The Neo-Babylonian and Early Persian Period 3.3 Hellenistic Babylon 3.4 Summary and Outlook
• 4 The New Year Festival Texts 4.1 NYF1: DT 15 4.2 NYF2: DT 114 4.3 NYF3: BM 32485+DT 109 4.4 NYF4: MNB 1848 4.5 NYF5: BM 41577 4.6 NYF6: BM 32655//BM 32374
• 5 Analyses 5.1 Philological Analysis 5.2 Analysis of the Paratextual Notes and Material Aspects 5.3 Analysis of the Ritual Instructions 5.4 Analysis of the Prayers 5.5 Conclusion
• 6 The Historical and Textual Framework of the NYF Texts 6.1 A Concise History of the Late Achaemenid and Hellenistic Periods (484 BCE-80 CE) 6.2 Temple Ritual Texts 6.3 Astronomical Diaries 6.4 Chronicles 6.5 Historical-Literary Texts 6.6 Summary
• 7 Conclusion
• Appendix 1: Correlation NYF2-3//NYF4 Appendix 2: Glossary of Akkadian Words in the NYF Texts Bibliography Referenced Sources General Index Geographical Locations Temples and Temple Features Deities and Divine Beings Stars, Planets and Constellations Persons Akkadian and Sumerian Terms.
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Editing and examining source-critically for the first time the Late Babylonian ritual texts dealing with the New Year Festival, this book proposes an incisive re-interpretation of the most frequently discussed of all Mesopotamian rituals. The festival's twelve-day paradigm is dissolved in favor of a more historically dynamic model, with the ritual texts being firmly anchored in the Hellenistic period. As part of a larger group of texts constituting what can be called Late Babylonian Priestly Literature, they reflect the Babylonian priesthoods' fears and aspirations of that time much more than an actual ritual reality.
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• The emergence of calendars in the Third Millennium BCE : deities, festivals, seasons, and the cultural construction of time / Walther Sallaberger
• Calendars, festivals, and rituals at Mari during the šakkanakku period : from the end of the third to the beginning of the Second Millennium BC / Laurent Colonna d'Istria
• Calendars in old Assyrian sources / Cécile Michel
• "Nippur calendar" and other calendars in the Old Babylonian Period / Dominique Charpin
• The Upper-Mesopotamian, or so-called "Šamšī-Adad calendar" / Nele Ziegler
• Calendar and festivals at Mari according to the Royal Archives from the reign of Zimri-Lim / Antoine Jacquet
• Calendars, month names and local traditions in Terqa in the Second Millennium BCE / Olivier Rouault
• Calendars of the land of Ḫana and the Middle Assyrian land of Māri in the Second Millennium BC / Daisuke Shibata and Shigeo Yamada
• The loss of the local calendar at Emar / Daniel E. Fleming
• The zukru cycle in the light of the planting rites in Emar / Masamichi Yamada

Calendars in the Making investigates the origins of calendars we are most familiar with today, yet whose early histories, in the Roman and medieval periods, are still shrouded in obscurity. It examines when the seven-day week was standardized and first used for dating and time reckoning, in Jewish and other constituencies of the Roman Empire; how the Christian liturgical calendar was constructed in early medieval Europe; and how and when the Islamic calendar was instituted. The volume includes studies of Roman provincial calendars, medieval Persian calendar reforms, and medieval Jewish calendar cycles. Edited by Sacha Stern, it presents the original research of a team of leading experts in the field. Contributors are: Francois de Blois, Ilaria Bultrighini, Sacha Stern, Johannes Thomann, Nadia Vidro, Immo Warntjes.
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• Calendriers et images
• Les images de fêtes dans les calendriers romains en images (fin IIe-milieu IVe siècle apr. J-C.) / Valérie Huet
• De signes et d'images. Les "calendriers des illettrés" dans l'Europe latine médiévale et moderne / Olivier Guyotjeannin
• Calendriers du quotidien
• Les derniers jours du défunt. L'empire et l'individu vus à travers les calendriers provenant des tombes du début de la Chine impériale / Daniel Patrick Morgan
• Les activités quotidiennes dans les calendriers de la Chine médiévale / Alain Arrault
• The conversion of a state calendar into a personal diary : On a new function of the Chinese calendar emerging in Japan between the 8th and IIth centuries / Gerhard Leinss
• Calendriers savants
• Calendriers et astronomie dans le monde byzantin / par Jean Lempire
• Jours propices, jours funestes. Les calendriers traditionnels en milieu bouddhiste thaï / Gregory Kourilsky
• Éphémérides, almanachs et prédictions annuelles : les calendriers astrologiques dans l'Europe du XVe siècle / Alexandre Tur
• The Ketika Lima (Five Times) : A Malay form of chronomancy / Farouk Yahya
• Calendriers et nature
• Activités rurales, crue du Nil et calendrier en Égypte, de l'Ancien Empire à l'époque gréco-romaine (2800 av. J.-C. - IVe siècle apr. J-C.) / Catherine Chadefaud
• Élaboration des systèmes phénologiques dans les calendriers chinois (XIIIe siècle AEC-IIe siècle EC) / Li Guoqiang
• Calendriers et nature dans l'Occident médiéval / Perrine Mane
• Vers le calendrier imprimé -- Usages et fonctions des calendriers aux premiers temps de l'imprimerie en Europe : l'exemple de quelques livres d'Heures incunables parisiens / Christine Bénévent.

"Alors que les aspects astronomiques et mathématiques des calendriers employés par les grandes civilisations sont relativement bien connus, le calendrier entendu comme objet, utilisé au quotidien pour "habiter le temps", le prévoir et le maîtriser, omniprésent dans les espaces privés et publics des sociétés anciennes, a été peu étudié pour lui-même. L'enjeu est ici de partir de sa matérialité, de son illustration, de son contenu ou encore de ses remplois, voire de ses usages détournés, qui trahissent autant d'appropriations, avant que l'introduction à des dates variées de la xylographie et de l'imprimerie n'accompagne de nouveaux usages et de nouvelles manipulations. Fruit d'une recherche collective menée par l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales, l'École française d'Extrême-Orient et l'École nationale des chartes, le présent volume embrasse de larges horizons culturels et géographiques et permet de scruter et de confronter l'exceptionnelle diversité de ces objets. Les cycles calendaires manuscrits ou gravés produits dans l'Europe antique et médiévale entrent ainsi en résonnance avec les calendriers retrouvés dans les tombes et grottes de Chine réalisés entre le IIIe siècle avant notre ère et le Xe siècle après notre ère, ou encore avec ceux qui furent conçus au Japon du VIIIe au XVe siècle et plus tardivement en Asie du Sud et du Sud-Est."--Page 4 of cover.

• 1. Myŏngch'i, Taejŏnggi p'yŏn
• 2. Sohwagi p'yŏn

• 1. 明治, 大正期 編
• 2. 昭和期 編.

• Illustrations Abbreviations Acknowledgements Conventions Introduction
• 1 Past, Present, Future
• 1 Chronology as an Early Modern Discipline
• 2 The Four Monarchies
• 3 Isaac Newton ... Chronologist?
• 2 Reading Classics
• 1 Reading for the 'Origines'
• 2 Notes and Records
• 3 An Independent Scholar
• 3 Chaos and Order
• 1 The Origins of the 'Origines'
• 2 'Originals'
• 3 Ordering Words and Worlds
• 4 Lost in Space and Time
• 4 Sacred Chronology
• 1 Methodising the Apocalypse
• 2 Rooted in Scripture
• 3 Critical Readings Some Concluding Remarks Appendices Appendix A: The Evolution of the 'Origines' Appendix B: From 'Origines' to Proto-Chronology Bibliography Index.
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Isaac Newton (1642-1727) is best known for his natural philosophical and mathematical works. Yet he devoted ample time to the study of ancient chronology, resulting in the posthumously published The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended (1728). Here, Newton attempted to show how the antiquity of Greece, Egypt, Assyria, Persia, and other Mediterranean nations could be reinterpreted to fit the timespan allowed for by Scripture. As the hundreds of books from his library and the thousands of manuscript pages devoted to the topic show, the Chronology was long in the making. This volume provides the first comprehensive analysis of the genesis and evolution of Newton's studies of ancient history and demonstrates how these emerged from that other major scholarly project of his, the interpretation of the apocalyptic prophecies in Scripture. A careful study of Newton's reading, note-taking, writing, and ordering practices provides the key to unravelling and reconstructing the chronology of Newton's chronological studies, bringing to light writings hitherto hidden in the archives.
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• 1: The Time r=Revolutionaries of 1859
• 2: Discovery: The Day April 27th 1859
• 3: Presenting the Evidence: The Month, May to June 1859
• 4: Reception: The Year 1859-1860
• 5: Consolidation: The Decade Begins 1860-1863
• 6: Acceptance: The Decade Closes 1864-1872
• 7: A Legacy of Zeal and Perseverance
• 8: Afterword: The Stone That Shattered the Barrier of Time.
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One afternoon in late April 1859 two geologically minded businessmen, John Evans and Joseph Prestwich, found and photographed the proof for great human antiquity. Their evidence - small, hand-held stone tools found in the gravel quarries of the Somme among the bones of ancient animals - shattered the timescale of Genesis and kicked open the door for a time revolution in human history. In the space of a calendar year, and at a furious pace, the relationship between humans and time was forever changed. This interpretation of deep human history was shaped by the optimistic decade of the 1850s, the Victorian Heyday in the age of equipoise. Proving great human antiquity depended on matching the principles of geology with the personal values of scientific zeal and perseverance; qualities which time-revolutionaries such as Evans and Prestwich had in abundance. Their revolution was driven by a small group of weekend scientists rather than some great purpose, and it proved effective because of its bonds of friendship stiffened by scientific curiosity and business acumen. Clive Gamble explores the personalities of these time revolutionaries and their scientific co-collaborators and adjudicators - Darwin, Falconer, Lyell, Huxley, and the French antiquary Boucher de Perthes - as well as their sisters, wives, and nieces Grace McCall, Civil Prestwich, and Fanny Evans. As with all scientific discoveries getting there was often circuitous and messy; the revolutionaries changed their minds and disagreed with those who should have been allies. Gamble's chronological narrative reveals each step from discovery to presentation, reception, consolidation, and widespread acceptance, and considers the impact of their work on the scientific advances of the next 160 years and on our fascination with the shaping power of time.
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• List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors
• 1 Time and the Eternal City
• Tuomas Heikkila
• 2 Temporal Expressions in Canonisation Processes and Diari, and the Perception of Time in Late Medieval Rome
• Saku Pihko
• 3 The Jubilee of 1300 as an Instrument of Time Control and Papal Power
• Jasmin Lukkari
• 4 Time Set in Stone: Temporal References in the Non-funerary Epigraphy of Rome (1000-1527 AD)
• Urpo Kantola
• 5 The Medieval Calendars of S. Pietro in Vaticano and S. Maria Maggiore in Rome
• Holger Kaasik
• 6 Navigating the Cycles of Time: Calendar Dates and the Week in a 13th Century Vatican Calendar
• Holger Kaasik
• 7 Calendars in Use: Comparing S. Pietro in Vaticano and S. Maria Maggiore in Rome
• Holger Kaasik
• 8 Complex Tools for Complex Time: Solar, Stellar, and Lunar Cycles of Time in Medieval Roman Calendars
• Marko Halonen
• Appendix 1: Non-Funerary Epigraphs in Vincenzo Forcella's Iscrizioni delle chiese ed altri edifici di Roma up to 1527AD: a Checklist
• Appendix 2: Other Publications
• Appendix 3: Topographic Summary
• Appendix 4: Calendrical Contrivances Used in Rome between the 10th and 16th Centuries
• Index of Persons Index of Places.
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Time in the Eternal City: Perceiving and Controlling Time in Late Medieval and Renaissance Rome is a major contribution to the study of time and its numerous aspects in late medieval and Renaissance Rome. The authors offer a versatile view on the variety of ways time could be perceived. Individual chapters concentrate on the grass-root levels of everyday life, on various uses of the past in the present, as well as on the control of time by the ecclesiastical authorities. These studies reveal a wealth of new information that demonstrates the almost endlessly fluid manner in which time could be perceived, as well as the innovative ways in which time could be used by individuals and authorities alike. Contributors are members of Tuomas Heikkila's research group at the Finnish Institute in Rome: Holger Kaasik, Urpo Kantola, Marko Halonen, Jasmin Lukkari and Saku Pihko.
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• Introduction : in search of weekly time
• A people of the week
• Our appointed times : the rise of the modern week
• Does anybody really know what time it is?
• Preserving the modern week
• Epilogue : at week's end?

An investigation into the evolution of the seven-day week and how our attachment to its rhythms influences how we live "[Henkin] scours American literature, diaries, periodicals, menus and other ephemera from as far back as the 17th century to unearth fascinating evidence of the stickiness of the seven-day cycle."-Melissa Holbrook Pierson, Wall Street Journal We take the seven-day week for granted, rarely asking what anchors it or what it does to us. Yet weeks are not dictated by the natural order. They are, in fact, an artificial construction of the modern world. With meticulous archival research that draws on a wide array of sources-including newspapers, restaurant menus, theater schedules, marriage records, school curricula, folklore, housekeeping guides, courtroom testimony, and diaries-David Henkin reveals how our current devotion to weekly rhythms emerged in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century. Reconstructing how weekly patterns insinuated themselves into the social practices and mental habits of Americans, Henkin argues that the week is more than just a regimen of rest days or breaks from work, but a dominant organizational principle of modern society. Ultimately, the seven-day week shapes our understanding and experience of time.
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