Bibliography
see also - web links
CR Cheney & M Jones (eds),
A Handbook of Dates for students of British History. Cambridge UP, 2000.
Useful tables. English regnal dates, saints' days, Easter, Roman dates, legal terms and much more.
Also previous editions.
DE Duncan, The Calendar. Fourth Estate, 1998.
A 'popular' treatment.
P Duffett-Smith, Astronomy with Your Personal Computer. Cambridge UP, 1990.
Formulas for ephemeris - moon phases, solstices etc.
(Also Practical Astronomy with your Calculator (1989) and Easy PC Astronomy (1996).)
EB Fryde (ed), A Handbook of British Chronology (3rd Edition). Cambridge UP (R Historical Society), 1996.
DE Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming (Vol 1, Fundamental Algorithms). Addison-Wesley, 1973.
JH Meeus, Astronomical Formulae for Calculators. Willman-Bell, 1988.
Includes formulas for the calculation of Easter, equinoxes & solstices, moon phases, planetary orbits etc.
EG Richards, Mapping Time. Oxford UP, 1998.
A truly comprehensive and readable
work, a very wide range of calendars is covered, large bibliography.
J Richardson, The Local Historian's Encyclopaedia. Historical Publications Ltd, 1974.
WA Schocken, The Calculated Confusion of Calendars. Vantage Press, 1976.
Idiosyncratic. Formulas, including Easter and calendar conversions.
SH Steinberg, A New Dictionary of British History. Arnold, 1976
C Webb, Dates and Calendars for the Genealogist. Society of Genealogists, 1989.
T Cranmer, The Book of Common Prayer. Oxford UP, 1552.
Most copies have "Tables and Rules for the Feasts and Fasts through the whole year".
Encyclopaedia Britannica, (11th Edition) Cambridge UP, 1910.
Probably more factual information than later editions.
