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BY-NC 4.0 license Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2020

Hic aues incipiunt cantare: Shifts in the Beginning of Seasons in Medieval Calendars of Rome and the Nordic Countries

From the book The Crisis of the 14th Century

  • Marko Halonen
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110660784-004
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Abstract

Medieval calendars contain a great deal of information concerning not only liturgical feasts but also the movements of celestial objects, the beginning of seasons, and other natural phenomena. This case study analyzes approximately 500 Roman and Fenno-Scandinavian calendars with especial attention to their mention of seasonal conditions. This material reveals some general trends in the seasons’ gradual shifts earlier or later in these calendars, depending on the century and location. The general pattern of these shifts gives some indication of how climatic and social changes of the fourteenth century became recorded in a practical tool for organizing time such as a calendar. Comparing these shifts at the opposite ends of Christendom also reveals how differently the same phenomena were perceived in different parts of the continent.

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The Crisis of the 14th Century
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Contents
Teleconnections, Correlations, Causalities between Nature and Society? An Introductory Comment on the “Crisis of the Fourteenth Century”
Ventus vehemens et terribilis per totam Angliam: Responses and Reactions to a Short-term Crisis in the British Isles
The Potential of Late Medieval and Early Modern Narrative Sources from the Area of Modern Switzerland for the Climate History of the Fourteenth Century
Hic aues incipiunt cantare: Shifts in the Beginning of Seasons in Medieval Calendars of Rome and the Nordic Countries
Climate and the Crises of the Early Fourteenth Century in Northeastern Europe
Food Crisis in Fourteenth-Century Hungary: Indicators, Causes and Case Studies
The Crisis of 1315–1322 in Bresse as Depicted in Manorial Rolls
The Mongol Yuan Dynasty and the Climate, 1260–1360
Facing the Crisis in Medieval Florence: Climate Variability, Carestie, and Forms of Adaptation in the First Half of the Fourteenth Century
The Little Ice Age and Byzantium within the Eastern Mediterranean, ca. 1200–1350: An Essay on Old Debates and New Scenarios
Plague and Desertion – A Consequence of Anthropogenic Landscape Change? Archaeological Studies in Southern Germany
Narratives of Environmental Events in the Winchester Pipe Rolls and English Historiography of the Early Fourteenth Century
The Little Ice Age and the Hungarian Kingdom? Sources and Research Perspectives
Thoughts on a Connected Fourteenth Century
Index of Places
Index of Names
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