tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1054099993321713428.post816735232947536901..comments2024-01-22T07:11:39.210+00:00Comments on Renaissance and Regency Rummage Repository: Time is not measured by Rollex in previous erasSarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03121102757759349165noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1054099993321713428.post-34432263454380034552011-09-24T17:42:04.170+01:002011-09-24T17:42:04.170+01:00March 25th was indeed the New Year in Felicia'...March 25th was indeed the New Year in Felicia's time, and if you think about it that makes sense of the custom of clearing the hearth completely and cleaning it out and cleaning through the house on New Year's Eve. NOT very practical on 31st January but in Spring, indeed the precursor to spring cleaning and eminently sensible. The change [back] to January 1st happened in 1752, to the disruption of genealogy researchers who can find what appear to be discrepancies in the dates of their ancestors; married in April 1560 say, first child born February 1560. This is actually 10 months later..... 1561 not beginning until March 25th. The OLD new year - to Felicia - had been 1st January, up to the 12th century, and like the Ides and Kalends Clio mentions - thanks, Clio, I did not realise they were used so late - is in the Roman tradition, January named for Janus the god of beginnings and transitions who had two faces, looking forward and back.Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03121102757759349165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1054099993321713428.post-72882576778730716792011-09-24T16:57:08.950+01:002011-09-24T16:57:08.950+01:00This is a wonderful essay about the perception of ...This is a wonderful essay about the perception of time--and this is basically, as you point out, the way anyone living in a rural setting, would have understood time almost up to the end of the nineteenth century..not just in Renaissance England, but in many parts of rural France and rural Germany..<br /><br />The only thing I'd add, however, is that political dating did integrate elements of a non-religious, secular calender--before the fourteenth century, some state records use "ides" and "kalends" which can be real confusing--there are archival handbooks that you have to refer to in order to check the date according to a modern calendar--and then many of the civic and monarchical records would start their years at different times--March 25 in Venice, for example...<br /><br />This was just great--this is more than a mere repository--it is a RESOURCE!!<br /><br />Clio1792Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com