The Oxford Companion to the Year by Bonnie Blackburn

The Oxford Companion to the Year by Bonnie Blackburn

A storehouse of useful, interesting, and curious knowledge about time and its reckoning, based on the premise that every day is memorable. The book is in two parts: an authoritative survey of the calendar year, and a section on the measurement of time and the calculation of movable feasts. It is illustrated with 16 pages of black-and-white plates.

Superbly and magisterially surveys man's attempts to order time by measuring it, dividing it neatly and giving significance to its parts* Ian Finlayson *
'Superbly and magisterially survey's man's attempts to order time by measuring it.' - Iain Finlayson, The Times, 9.12.99
'Never, indeed, have reference books been better produced, more amply illustrated and often more accessible than ever before. A beautiful example is the Oxford Companion to the Year ... the ultimate millennium calendar.' The Express on Sunday, 5.12.99
'Effective ....This is one of the few books you will never get fed up with reading. Focus, January 2000

Bonnie Blackburn, a musicologist, received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1970. She has written articles and books on Renaissance music, and is General Editor of the series Monuments of Renaissance Music (University of Chicago Press). She is a member of the Faculty of Music at Oxford University. Leofranc Holford-Strevens, a classicist, received a D.Phil. from Oxford University in 1971. The author of Aulus Gellius (1988), he is a desk-editor with Oxford University Press. He has had a long-standing interest in calendars and chronologies.

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ISBN 13	9780192142313
ISBN 10	0192142313
Title	The Oxford Companion to the Year
Author	Bonnie Blackburn
Series	Oxford Companions
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	1999-11-11
Number of pages	955
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