A Handbook of Dates: For Students of British History / Edition 2

by C. R. Cheney, Michael Jones

Overview

A Handbook of Dates provides in clear, user-friendly form, tables that allow the calculation of the dates (and days) on which historical events have fallen or will fall, from AD 500 to 2100. It includes lists of Easter dates, saints' days, popes, rulers of England and the Roman calendar. In this updated and expanded edition, Michael Jones has edited or revised the explanatory sections and added new tables, for example on old and new style dates and Celtic Easter. A Handbook of Dates is an unrivaled reference tool for historians.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521778459
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	04/06/2000
Series:	Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks , #4
Edition description:	Revised Edition
Pages:	268
Sales rank:	722,024
Product dimensions:	6.02(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.75(d)

Table of Contents

Preface to the new edition; Preface to the original edition (1945); 1. Reckonings of time; 2. Rulers of England and regnal years; 3. List of Popes; 4. Saints' days and festivals used in dating; 5. Legal chronology; 6. The Roman calendar; 7. Celtic and Roman (Alexandrian) Easter Days, AD 400–768; 8. Calendars for all possible dates of Easter AD 400–2100; 9. Easter Days according to old style, AD 400–1752; 10. Easter Days according to new style, AD 1583–2100; 11. The English calendar for 1752; 12. Dates of adoption of Gregorian calendar in Europe; 13. The French Revolutionary calendar; Index.

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