The Calendar
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English - January 11, 2022 04:00 - 40 minutes - 28.2 MBEducation Comedy realted search weird funny information history stupid true crime lgbtq Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
THE CALENDAR
Fact: it is a new calendar year. That is…fine…but perhaps while drifting through the relentless experience of temporality, you take note of that scheduling grid on the wall (or device) and ask -the heck is a calendar anyway? How do we know what day it is? Why did we even agree to this?
Kait attempts to serve up a brief history of western timekeeping..a choice cut of the Roman Empire, marinated in Christianity, some roughly chopped Norse gods and a pinch of kosher salt. We gripe about prolix nundinae (roman counting being terrible), the church making everyone be about Jesus all the time, and the British Empire opting out, giving everyone a logistical headache for almost 200 years. Eventually, we stumble out into a mildly-coherent existential yawn about the absurdity of time, curl into a ball and take a nap.
SOURCES:
(wikipedia mostly, come at me history bros)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_calendar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretatio_germanica (Rudolf Simek)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_(New_Style)_Act_1750
The Ancients podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/how-julius-caesar-changed-time/id1520403988?i=1000546467187
Image Sources:
fasti Praenestini from Praeneste (Palestrina)
https://db.edcs.eu/epigr/bilder/$Gordon_00036_2.jpg
History of Calendar Design, Francesco Bertelli, October 2018 https://uxdesign.cc/a-brief-history-of-calendar-design-c3f876689fed
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