{"product_id":"calendars-and-years-ii","title":"Calendars and Years II","description":"Understanding the calendars used by ancient and medieval  cultures is essential to the writing of history. Equally  important, however, is understanding the basis upon which our  current knowledge of these calendars rests. This second volume of   Calendars and Years  explores the calendars of ancient and medieval China, India, the ancient Jewish world, the medieval  Islamic world, and the Maya. Particular attention is given to the  preserved evidence on which our understanding of these calendars  lie, the modern historiography of their study, and the role of  calendars in ancient and medieval society. Topics covered include  the origin of the Chinese sexagenary cycle, evidence for the  364-day year in the ancient Jewish world, and the history of  attempts to establish a correlation between Mayan dates and the  Julian and Gregorian calendars.  176p, b\/w illus (Oxbow Books 2011) \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Praise for Volume I: \u003cbr\u003e \"Steele has assembled an essential foundation for the further  study of calendariography and chronography in the ancient Near  East and Egypt.\"\u003cbr\u003e Francesca Rochberg\u003cbr\u003e  Journal for the History of Astronomy  (November 2008) \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"It is a book from which there are absolute nuggets of incredible  information to be mined.\"\u003cbr\u003e Peter A Clayton","brand":"Oxbow Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54252258984280,"sku":"9781842179871","price":40.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781842179871__6773a85ed5dc1.jpg?v=1741161184","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/calendars-and-years-ii","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}