Hesitant Steps: Acceptance of the Gregorian Calendar in Eighteenth-Century Geneva
History demonstrates that the calendar is a tool of far more significance than simply a means to organize units of time. For Roman high priests prior to the reign of Julius Caesar, the calendar was a tool of power, symbolizing political supremacy over society through the manipulation of time at will...
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2006
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Church history
Year: 2006, Volume: 75, Issue: 3, Pages: 544-564 |
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