The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine: Time, History, and the Fasti - Hardcover

Rüpke, Jörg

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470655089 ISBN 13: 9780470655085

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011

Synopsis

This book provides a definitive account of the history of the Roman calendar, offering new reconstructions of its development that demand serious revisions to previous accounts.

• Examines the critical stages of the technical, political, and religious history of the Roman calendar
• Provides a comprehensive historical and social contextualization of ancient calendars and chronicles
• Highlights the unique characteristics which are still visible in the most dominant modern global calendar
  

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About the Author

About the Author

Jörg Rüpke is Fellow in Religious Studies at the Max Weber Centre of the University of Erfurt. His publications include Fasti sacerdotum: A Prosopography of Pagan, Jewish, and Christian Religious Officials in the City of Rome, 300 BC to AD 499 (trans. David Richardson, 2008), Religion of the Romans (2007), A Companion to Roman Religion (2007), and Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome (co-edited with C. Ando, 2006).

About the Translator

David M. B. Richardson has previously translated Fasti sacerdotum: A Prosopography of Pagan, Jewish, and Christian Religious Officials in the City of Rome, 300 BC to AD 499 (Jörg Rüpke, 2008), and contributed to the English translation of Brill's New Pauly Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World (2002 onwards).

From the Back Cover

"It is excellent to see an updated and revised translation of Jörg Rüpke's fundamentally important study of the Roman calendar, one which keeps alive its profound learning and provocative originality."
Denis Feeney, Princeton University

"At last, thanks to Jörg Rüpke and David Richardson, we have a proper modern, historical account of the Roman calendar. A thoroughly revised and updated translation of Rüpke's earlier work, this work affects our understanding of virtually every activity at Rome mediated by time."
Clifford Ando, University of Chicago

"Rüpke's Roman Calendar offers a rich critique of received ideas about republican attitudes to time and the evolution of the calendar; it will surely provoke much radical re-thinking on major problems."
John North, London University College

"This is an excellent abridgment of Rüpke's standard work Kalender und Öffentlichkeit. In this historical survey, Rüpke discusses not only the technical details of the evolving Roman calendar but also its significance in the political and historical setting. The book is an essential resource for anyone interested in Roman civilization."
Karl Galinsky, University of Texas

The Roman calendar, in particular in the form of the Julian calendar of Julius Caesar, was used as the basis for what is, globally, the most important calendar today. This calendar evolved in a series of reforms and revolutions, and many of its peculiar features, from the name of the months to the number of days, are still visible. This book traces the history and the peculiar form taken by the calendar.

Offering new reconstructions of the critical stages of the technical, political, medial, and religious history of the Roman calendar, this book demands serious revisions to previous accounts and provides a definitive history of the Roman calendar. This new history enables a fresh understanding of the history of the Christian calendars and stimulates research on other calendars.

From the Inside Flap

"It is excellent to see an updated and revised translation of Jörg Rüpke's fundamentally important study of the Roman calendar, one which keeps alive its profound learning and provocative originality."
Denis Feeney, Princeton University

"At last, thanks to Jörg Rüpke and David Richardson, we have a proper modern, historical account of the Roman calendar. A thoroughly revised and updated translation of Rüpke's earlier work, this work affects our understanding of virtually every activity at Rome mediated by time."
Clifford Ando, University of Chicago

"Rüpke's Roman Calendar offers a rich critique of received ideas about republican attitudes to time and the evolution of the calendar; it will surely provoke much radical re-thinking on major problems."
John North, London University College

"This is an excellent abridgment of Rüpke's standard work Kalender und Öffentlichkeit. In this historical survey, Rüpke discusses not only the technical details of the evolving Roman calendar but also its significance in the political and historical setting. The book is an essential resource for anyone interested in Roman civilization."
Karl Galinsky, University of Texas

The Roman calendar, in particular in the form of the Julian calendar of Julius Caesar, was used as the basis for what is, globally, the most important calendar today. This calendar evolved in a series of reforms and revolutions, and many of its peculiar features, from the name of the months to the number of days, are still visible. This book traces the history and the peculiar form taken by the calendar.

Offering new reconstructions of the critical stages of the technical, political, medial, and religious history of the Roman calendar, this book demands serious revisions to previous accounts and provides a definitive history of the Roman calendar. This new history enables a fresh understanding of the history of the Christian calendars and stimulates research on other calendars.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470655089
• ISBN 13: 9780470655085
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240