Title The Easter computus and the origins of the Christian era / Alden A. Mosshammer

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 474 pages) Series Oxford early Christian studies Oxford early Christian studies. Contents List of Tables; Abbreviations; PART I. CONTEXTS; PART II. THE EASTER TABLES OF DIONYSIUS EXIGUUS; PART III. PASCHAL CALCULATIONS IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY; PART IV. THE ORIGIN OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA; References; Index Summary This study of early Christian methods for calculating the phases of the moon and the date for Easter Sunday offers a new explanation of how the system of numbering the years AD (Anni Domini, Years of the Lord) originated Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-463) and index Notes Print version record Subject Dionysius, Exiguus, -approximately 540 SUBJECT Dionysius Exiguus, -approximately 540 fast Subject Easter. Church calendar -- History Church history -- Chronology. Easter. RELIGION -- Holidays -- Christian. Church calendar Church history Easter Genre/Form chronologies (lists) Chronologies History Chronologies. Chronologies. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191562365 019156236X

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