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Subtitle: Calendar Reform and Calendrical Astronomy in Medieval Europe
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780198799559
Subjects: Calendar reform; Calendars; Science, europe
Description: The first comprehensive study on the history of calendar reform and calendrical astronomy in medieval Europe, this volume draws on a range of sources over a period of more than 1600 years, from the Julian calendar of 46/45 BC to the Gregorian calendar reform of 1582, to shed new light on the place of astronomy in medieval intellectual culture.