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SUMMARY:&quot\;On or about/In and upon&quot\;: ‘dating statements’ and
  the rise of ‘almanac time’ in early modern England - Professor Keith 
 Wrightson (Yale)
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DESCRIPTION:This paper examines the ‘time consciousness’ of the common
  people in early modern England through the systematic study of the idioms
  used by them to date events.   Samples of ‘dating statements’ in whic
 h witnesses attempted to date an event witnessed in the past reveal coexis
 ting ways of locating events in time and shifts in their relative importan
 ce between the sixteenth and the early eighteenth centuries. These variant
 s and changes are explained in terms of the forms of time consciousness ap
 propriate to different ‘communities of practice’ and the rise of what 
 I call ‘almanac time’.
LOCATION:History Faculty Board Room
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