
By Jörg Rüpke
This ebook offers a definitive account of the heritage of the Roman calendar, supplying new reconstructions of its improvement that call for severe revisions to earlier accounts.Examines the severe phases of the technical, political, and non secular heritage of the Roman calendar offers a entire historic and social contextualization of old calendars and chroniclesHighlights the original features that are nonetheless noticeable within the such a lot dominant glossy worldwide calendar