Now this meant that in the Greek world, there were innumerable-- basically innumerable calendars that had to be negotiated in some way. calendrical systems at work.
The numbering system that we use is basically attributed to Dionysius Exiguus. And it replaced a previous system of calendrical dating, going back-- well, actually this is a system that we no longer particularly use.
You can see within of course a correlation still, a modern correlation between this relationship between the Catholic Church and nation states. So these Catholic countries are then adopting this calendrical system that was introduced by the pope in the 16th century. However, not everybody did this.
And in a world then where of course we see the Gregorian calendar, the power of the Catholic church expressed through the French monarchy, is then overthrown. And with it, the calendrical system is changed in order that it will represent a more rational and of course more egalitarian world in many ways. So they created 12 months then of equal length, of 30 days each, and then a six day holiday
is a system that we no longer particularly use. But Dionysius-- yes, Dionysius replaced a calendrical system which had been based on what's called the Diocletianic era, meaning that this had picked up at the accession of the Roman Emperor Diocletian in 284 CE.
For some reason, we have to use that. And this is a point at which a whole bunch of different calendrical systems actually coincide. So it makes sense when translating from one calendar to another to use this date.
Now this meant that in the Greek world, there were innumerable-- basically innumerable calendars that had to be negotiated in some way. And we can see within the sum of this interaction between two calendrical systems.
Now if we step back a little bit, we could think much more abstractly about this. And really, I'd like to step back and talk about ancient calendrical systems. And we can see the same ways of these calendars interacting that we can see in the modern world.
Now this meant that in the Greek world, there were innumerable-- basically innumerable calendars that had to be negotiated in some way. Now within this, you can see the workings of the calendrical systems as well.
Now this meant that in the Greek world, there were innumerable-- basically innumerable calendars that had to be negotiated in some way. minas of silver. So you can see that these complications then of calendrical dates continue on to personal transactions as well.