J. C. Eade's The Calendrical Systems of Mainland South-East Asia is a specialist technical study reconstructing the interlocking lunar, solar and era-based calendars used historically across Burma, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, written for readers who need to convert or verify historical dates rather than for general audiences. Its authority comes from close philological and astronomical reconstruction of how these calendars actually functioned, cross-checked against inscriptions and chronicles. That technical focus is also its limit: it is a reference tool for calendrical mechanics, largely silent on the religious meaning particular festival dates carried for practitioners, and it should be paired with ethnographic or doctrinal sources when the question is what a date meant rather than when it fell.
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J. C. Eade's The Calendrical Systems of Mainland South-East Asia, published by Brill, is a specialist technical reconstruction cross checked against inscriptions and chronicles, treated at the top tier for its philological and astronomical rigor. NotesHandbuch der Orientalistik series. Standard reference for Thai, Burmese, Khmer and Lao calendrical reckoning and the Buddhist Era.
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AuthorJ. C. Eade
PublisherBrill
Publication Year1995
Source Typebook
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This source names Asia directly: "Eade's The Calendrical Systems of Mainland South-East Asia is a specialist technical study reconstructing the interlocking lunar, solar and era-based calendars used historically across Burma..."
Source The Calendrical Systems of Mainland South-East AsiaJ. C. Eade
This source names Cambodia directly: "across Burma, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, written for readers who need to convert or verify historical dates rather than for general audiences."
Source The Calendrical Systems of Mainland South-East AsiaJ. C. Eade
This source names Laos directly: "historically across Burma, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, written for readers who need to convert or verify historical dates rather than for general audiences."
Source The Calendrical Systems of Mainland South-East AsiaJ. C. Eade
This source names Thailand directly: "used historically across Burma, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, written for readers who need to convert or verify historical dates rather than for general audiences."
Source The Calendrical Systems of Mainland South-East AsiaJ. C. Eade
Claims Backed By This Source (29 claims)
This source backs 29 claims across the atlas. As facts: 23 well-attested. As cited relationships: 5 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Calendars, 16 claims: 14 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 11 claims: 7 well-attested, 4 holds.
- Articles, 2 claims: 2 well-attested.
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