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The Oxford Companion to the Year [Repost]

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The Oxford Companion to the Year [Repost]

The Oxford Companion to the Year by Bonnie Blackburn
English | 11 Nov. 1999 | ISBN: 0192142313 | 970 Pages | PDF | 10 MB

The Oxford Companion to the Year explores the fascinating history of calendars in general and our own in particular.
The calendar used in the West today is just one of a multitude of systems for parcelling up time and naming its divisions. Each of its days has over the centuries acquired its own peculiar significance: the feast day of a saint, the celebration of a historical event, the subject of prose or poetry, the commemoration of a significant historical figure.