[Ansteorra] [Marginalia] Happy New Year!

[Baker, Cindy]

And we think we have it tough trying to remember which year of Anno Societatis to put on the next court scroll....
Ellen

From: InvisibleCollege at yahoogroups.com [mailto:InvisibleCollege at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Galen of Ockham, OP
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Subject: [Marginalia] Happy New Year!




Calendars are pretty neat and tidy these days. Essentially the entire world works off the same system (at least for business purposes). It was not so easy in the past:

"If we suppose a traveler to set out from Venice on 1 March 1245, the first day of the Venetian year, he would find himself in 1244 when he reached Florence: and if after a short stay he went on to Pisa, the year 1246 would already have begun there. Continuing his journey westward, he would find himself again in 1245 when he entered Province, and on arriving in France before Easter (16 April) he would be once more in 1244." [Cheney, C.R. (ed), Revised by Michael Jones. A Handbook of Dates for Students of British History, New Edition. Cambridge University Press. 2000. p. 8.]

March 25 was considered New Year's Day in many countries. For example, England and its colonies used March 25 until they transitioned to a Jan 1 start of the year when they adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1752.

Why the 25th of March? One theory is that it was close to the spring equinox and also was a prominent date on the Church calendar: the Feast of the Annunciation, informally known as "Lady Day".

If wearing your garb in public isn't sufficient to get the attention of non-SCA folks, try wishing them a "Happy New Year" today!
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Magister Galenus Ockhamnesis
Friar Galen of Ockham, OP
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