tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8092896.post4685053966018739967..comments2023-11-13T04:15:43.184-06:00Comments on Cantànima: Decades, centuries, millennia, you're all wrong!jack perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14681558050302289235noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8092896.post-60479820181900419462010-01-13T22:45:55.110-06:002010-01-13T22:45:55.110-06:00Well, I know some Greeks from Tarpon Springs. They...Well, I know some Greeks from Tarpon Springs. They celebrate Epiphany with great gusto.Clemenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05922786452973982414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8092896.post-33303606421557264242010-01-03T21:30:15.551-06:002010-01-03T21:30:15.551-06:00Every now and then I think I will resurrect dating...Every now and then I think I will resurrect dating by AUC (Ab Urbe Condito). But I didn't realize that some dated from Easter Day.<br /><br />Russians celebrate New Year's Day according to the Gregorian calendar, but Christmas according to the Julian Calendar. The former is secular, which helps. The latter is religious, so…jack perryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14681558050302289235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8092896.post-90253601085821930182010-01-02T22:50:42.608-06:002010-01-02T22:50:42.608-06:00Old hat for a medieval historian. I work with docu...Old hat for a medieval historian. I work with documents that were dated from the Christian era, but there were several notions of what year started that. And then there was the question of WHAT you were dating from: the birth of Christ, or his Resurrection? Both opinions operated. And when to begin the year? At the end of the old pagan year, on 1 January? Or on Easter Day? Try figuring that last Clemenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05922786452973982414noreply@blogger.com