Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern EuropeFrom one of the leading historians of the Jewish past comes a stunning look into a previously unexamined dimension of Jewish life and culture: the calendar. In the late sixteenth century, Pope Gregory XIII instituted a momentous reform of Western timekeeping, and with it a period of great instability. Jews, like all minority cultures in Europe, had to realign their time-keeping to accord with the new Christian calendar. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
1 Calendar and the Cultural Meaning of Time | 5 |
2 The Politics of Time in Early Modern Europe | 28 |
3 The Jewish Calendar in the Age of Print | 47 |
4 A New Jewish Book in Christian Europe | 72 |
5 Keeping Christian Time in Jewish Calendars | 115 |
6 Church Time and Market Time | 141 |
7 Calendar Ritual and the Turn of the Seasons | 160 |