Palaces of time : Jewish calendar and culture in early modern Europe

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Title:

Palaces of time : Jewish calendar and culture in early modern Europe

Author:

Carlebach, Elisheva.

Personal Author:

Carlebach, Elisheva.

Publication Information:

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.

Physical Description:

xi, 292 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Language:

English

Contents:

Calendar and the cultural meaning of time -- The politics of time in early modern Europe -- The Jewish calendar in the Age of Print -- A new Jewish book in Christian Europe -- Keeping Christian time in Jewish calendars -- Church time and market time -- Calendar, ritual, and the turn of the seasons -- Imagining the beginning of time : Jewish chronology.

Subject Term:

Jewish calendar.

Time -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.

Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity.

Christianity and other religions -- Judaism.

Judaism -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.

Geographic Term:

Europe -- Ethnic relations.

ISBN:

9780674052543

Format :

Book