Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W91347505> ?p ?o ?g. }
Showing items 1 to 86 of
86
with 100 items per page.
- W91347505 endingPage "19" @default.
- W91347505 startingPage "1" @default.
- W91347505 abstract "The Catholic Historical Review VOL.LXXXVlJANUARY, 2000No. 1 GOING GREGORIAN, 1582-1752: ASUMMARYVIEW Malcolm Freiberg* In 1582 the papal decree of Gregory XIII dropped ten days from the Julian calendar then in use, thus synchronizing the year and its seasons. Western Europe's Catholic countries rapidly adopted the New Stile calendar, so-called; Protestant ones did so more slowly.Among the latter, Great Britain was a long-term holdout. She clung to the Old StileJulian calendar until 1752, when she and her dominions finally abandoned it in favor of the Catholic construct of 170 years before. Some hostility accompanied the change in Britain; adoption was not contentious in colonial America. For civil purposes, most nations of the world now use the calendar that Pope Gregory had promulgated for religious purposes, the incidence of the Resurrection being at the core of Christianity. As we leave one millennium and enter another, a brief look at 1582 and 1752 and the years before, between, and after may be of more than antiquarian interest . In 46 B.C. (as we now reckon time) Julius Caesar by decree imposed the calendar that bears his name. To achieve seasonal harmony, it lengthened the year to 445 days, began 45 B.C. and succeeding years on January 1 , and, on the advice of the Greco-Alexandrian astronomer Sosi- *Dr. Freiberg is Editor of Publications, Emeritus, of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston. After this article was accepted in June, 1998, for publication in the year 2000, the William and Mary Quarterly published in October, 1998 (3rd series, Vol. Ly pp. 557-584), Mark M. Smith's article on Culture, Commerce, and Calendar Reform in Colonial America. (To that point neither was aware of the other's interest in aspects of calendrical history.) Professor Smith's excellent essay is highly recommended. I GOING GREGORIAN, 1582-1752: A SUMMARY VIEW genes, set a year's duration at 365 days and six hours, with common years to run 365 days and with every fourth year to contain an extra day. Its year-length estimate was eleven minutes and fourteen seconds greater than a natural year, a difference adding up to an entire day every 128 years. In addition, the Julian rule resulted in three too many leap years about every 400 years. As the centuries advanced, the spring equinox receded. By the time of the Council of Nicaea1 in 325 A.D., it had drifted from March 25 to March 21. The council set March 21 as the date of the spring equinox. In addition, it mandated that Easter should fall on the Sunday after the full moon following the spring equinox and avoid coinciding with the Jewish Passover. By the sixteenth century, the spring equinox was back at March 1 1 , the autumnal at September 1 1, the longest day of the year was June 1 1 , and the shortest, December 1 1 . In short, the calendar was ready for revision. Ready, that is, after a long interval of sixteen centuries from the imposition of the Julian calendar. In that interval, there were numerous attempts , all undertaken in the name of religion, to purge Caesar's calendar ofits errors.2 In 625 A.D. a monk in Rome named Dionysius Exiguus postulated Christ's date of conception as March 25 (when a year should begin) and date of birth as December 25. Also, the monk abandoned reckoning time from the foundation of Rome (a& urbe condita ) and opted for the year of Christ's birth, which he assumed occurred in 1 A.D. (^Anno Domini in the year of the Lord). The lack of a Year Zero in the Dionysian scheme still troubles those who insist that the new millennium properly begins on January 1, 2001.3 By the sixteenth century, movements for calendar reform were accelerating , mostly at various ecumenical councils—Constance, Basle, and 'Nicaea, today's Iznik, at the eastern end of Lake Iznik, in northwest Anatolia, Turkey. On some of these attempts, see Bertha M. Frick, with the collaboration of S. A. Ives, Calendar Reform across Eighteen Centuries,/oMrae/ of Calendar Reform, Third Quarter , 1943, pp. 130-138, and Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, The Printing Press as an Agent..." @default.
- W91347505 created "2016-06-24" @default.
- W91347505 creator A5031055569 @default.
- W91347505 date "2000-01-01" @default.
- W91347505 modified "2023-10-17" @default.
- W91347505 title "Going Gregorian, 1582-1752: A Summary View" @default.
- W91347505 cites W1489258084 @default.
- W91347505 cites W1491202267 @default.
- W91347505 cites W1493143213 @default.
- W91347505 cites W1564462315 @default.
- W91347505 cites W1564823160 @default.
- W91347505 cites W170579580 @default.
- W91347505 cites W1986407812 @default.
- W91347505 cites W2004068457 @default.
- W91347505 cites W2005332965 @default.
- W91347505 cites W2042074568 @default.
- W91347505 cites W2044647610 @default.
- W91347505 cites W2047933861 @default.
- W91347505 cites W2048210210 @default.
- W91347505 cites W2083001379 @default.
- W91347505 cites W2094127981 @default.
- W91347505 cites W2125321823 @default.
- W91347505 cites W2318883903 @default.
- W91347505 cites W2332973298 @default.
- W91347505 cites W2495932136 @default.
- W91347505 cites W2499581639 @default.
- W91347505 cites W268411945 @default.
- W91347505 cites W2952657238 @default.
- W91347505 cites W2981960515 @default.
- W91347505 cites W641902125 @default.
- W91347505 doi "https://doi.org/10.1353/cat.2000.0151" @default.
- W91347505 hasPublicationYear "2000" @default.
- W91347505 type Work @default.
- W91347505 sameAs 91347505 @default.
- W91347505 citedByCount "6" @default.
- W91347505 countsByYear W913475052012 @default.
- W91347505 countsByYear W913475052013 @default.
- W91347505 countsByYear W913475052017 @default.
- W91347505 countsByYear W913475052022 @default.
- W91347505 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
- W91347505 hasAuthorship W91347505A5031055569 @default.
- W91347505 hasConcept C111021475 @default.
- W91347505 hasConcept C166957645 @default.
- W91347505 hasConcept C17744445 @default.
- W91347505 hasConcept C195244886 @default.
- W91347505 hasConcept C199539241 @default.
- W91347505 hasConcept C2778958867 @default.
- W91347505 hasConcept C2779121111 @default.
- W91347505 hasConcept C52119013 @default.
- W91347505 hasConcept C531593650 @default.
- W91347505 hasConcept C551968917 @default.
- W91347505 hasConcept C74916050 @default.
- W91347505 hasConcept C95457728 @default.
- W91347505 hasConceptScore W91347505C111021475 @default.
- W91347505 hasConceptScore W91347505C166957645 @default.
- W91347505 hasConceptScore W91347505C17744445 @default.
- W91347505 hasConceptScore W91347505C195244886 @default.
- W91347505 hasConceptScore W91347505C199539241 @default.
- W91347505 hasConceptScore W91347505C2778958867 @default.
- W91347505 hasConceptScore W91347505C2779121111 @default.
- W91347505 hasConceptScore W91347505C52119013 @default.
- W91347505 hasConceptScore W91347505C531593650 @default.
- W91347505 hasConceptScore W91347505C551968917 @default.
- W91347505 hasConceptScore W91347505C74916050 @default.
- W91347505 hasConceptScore W91347505C95457728 @default.
- W91347505 hasIssue "1" @default.
- W91347505 hasLocation W913475051 @default.
- W91347505 hasOpenAccess W91347505 @default.
- W91347505 hasPrimaryLocation W913475051 @default.
- W91347505 hasRelatedWork W1535796779 @default.
- W91347505 hasRelatedWork W1886356490 @default.
- W91347505 hasRelatedWork W2044999632 @default.
- W91347505 hasRelatedWork W2056832025 @default.
- W91347505 hasRelatedWork W2097383131 @default.
- W91347505 hasRelatedWork W2329515125 @default.
- W91347505 hasRelatedWork W2906278182 @default.
- W91347505 hasRelatedWork W4205849864 @default.
- W91347505 hasRelatedWork W4252150638 @default.
- W91347505 hasRelatedWork W4361185586 @default.
- W91347505 hasVolume "86" @default.
- W91347505 isParatext "false" @default.
- W91347505 isRetracted "false" @default.
- W91347505 magId "91347505" @default.
- W91347505 workType "article" @default.