Table of Contents

Preface
1: Principles of time measurement
2: Prehistory and history of the modern calendar
3: Weeks and seasons
4: Easter
5: Other calendars
6: Marking the year
7: Dividing the day
Further Reading

About the Author

Leofranc Holford-Strevens, a classicist, received a D.Phil from Oxford University in 1971. The author of Aulus Gellius (1988), and co-author of The Oxford Companion to the Year (OUP 1999), he is a desk-editor with Oxford University Press. He has a long-standing interest in calendars, chronologies, and the calculation of time.