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and its rhetoric in the construction and rejection of Roman imperial power". In Faure, Richard; Valli, Simon-Pierre; Zucker, Arnaud (eds.).
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is a length of time roughly equal to the potential lifetime of a person or, equivalently, the complete renewal of a human population.
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in various media, linked to a golden age of imperial glory. In response, Christian writers began to define the
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242:Saeculum obscurum
165:The English word
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1454:Categories
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1376:Millennium
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1168:Julian day
989:T-symmetry
850:Solar time
820:Civil time
672:2023-09-05
648:2023-09-05
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263:"Saeculum"
249:References
214:Generation
189:, Italian
181:, Spanish
129:millennium
127:. The new
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1183:Lunisolar
1173:Leap year
1107:Gregorian
1057:stopwatch
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1012:Astrarium
929:Spacetime
860:Time zone
737:Metrology
716:standards
570:"secular"
550:"secular"
528:0035-449X
499:ignored (
489:cite book
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349:0035-449X
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1397:Duration
1371:Saeculum
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1099:Calendar
999:Horology
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662:"secolo"
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590:"siècle"
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197:See also
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1366:Century
1356:Lustrum
1286:Instant
1158:Equinox
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1069:Sundial
934:Chronon
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209:Century
193:, etc.
167:secular
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112:saecula
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1291:Flick
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1178:Lunar
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1052:Watch
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