LEADER 02349nmm 2200409Ia 450 001 996588065303316 005 20240326120151.0 010 $a3-11-136687-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9783111366876 035 $a(CKB)31104641900041 035 $a(DE-B1597)669851 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783111366876 035 $a(EXLCZ)9931104641900041 100 $a20240326h20242024 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe Temporality of Festivals $eApproaches to Festive Time in Ancient Babylon, Greece, Rome, and Medieval China /$fed. by Anke Walter 210 1$aBerlin ;$aBoston : $cDe Gruyter, $d[2024] 210 4$dİ2024 215 $a1 online resource (VI, 94 p.) 225 0 $aChronoi : Zeit, Zeitempfinden, Zeitordnungen / Time, Time Awareness, Time Management ,$x2701-1453 ;$v10 311 $a3-11-136486-0 330 $aHow can time become festive? How do festivals manage to make time 'special', to mark out a certain day or days, to distinguish them from 'normal', everyday time, and to fill them with meaning? And how can we reconstruct what festive time looked like in the past and what people thought about it? While a lot of research has been done on festivals from the point of view of several scholarly disciplines, the specific temporality of festivals has not yet attracted sufficient attention. In this volume, scholars from different fields provide answers to the questions raised above, based on a fresh analysis of astronomical documents, calendars, and literary texts. Cultures as diverse as ancient Babylon, Greece and Rome, and medieval China all share a sense of calendrically recurring festive time as something special that needs to be carefully mapped out and preserved, often with great sophistication, and that gives us precious insights into the broader religious, political, and social dimensions of time within past cultures. 610 $aAugustan Rome. 610 $aBabylonian astronomy. 610 $aClassical Greece. 610 $aMedieval China. 702 $aWalter$b Anke, $4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996588065303316 996 $aThe Temporality of Festivals$94148342 997 $aUNISA