Calendars in the Making: The Origins of Calendars from the Roman Empire to the Later Middle Ages

Calendars in the Making investigates the Roman and medieval origins of several calendars we are most familiar with today, including the Christian liturgical calendar, the Islamic calendar, and the week as a standard method of dating and time reckoning.

About the author

Sacha Stern (DPhil. Oxon. 1992) is Professor of Jewish Studies at University College London. He has published several books on calendars and time reckoning, including Calendars in Antiquity (Oxford 2012) and The Jewish Calendar Controversy of 921/2 (Leiden 2019).

Product details

• Assisted by: Sacha Stern (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9789004459632
• ISBN: 978-90-04-45963-2
• No. of pages: 312
• Weight: 646 g
• Series: Time, Astronomy, and Calendars
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity