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1 online resource |
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Cover; Scandalous Error: Calendar Reform and Calendrical Astronomy in Medieval Europe; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1: The Julian Calendar and the Problem of the Equinoxes in the Early Middle Ages; 1.1. MACROBIUS ON THE HISTORY OF THE ROMAN CALENDAR; 1.2. CALENDRICAL IDEAL AND ASTRONOMICAL REALITY; 1.3. CAESAR'S REFORM IN IRISH MONASTERIES; 1.4. MEDIEVAL CALENDARS AND CONFLICTING EQUINOXES; 1.5. NEW IMPULSES: ASTROLABES AND 'MODERN' DATES |
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2: The Ecclesiastical Lunar Calendar and Its Critics, 300-1100; 2.1. EASTER: CYCLES AND CONTROVERSIES; 2.2. THE EMERGENCE OF AN ECCLESIASTICAL LUNAR CALENDAR; 2.3. TOWARDS A COMPUTUS NATURALIS; 3: Calendrical Astronomy in the Twelfth Century; 3.1. WALCHER OF MALVERN AND THE TIPPING POINT OF LATIN ASTRONOMY; 3.2. ARABS, HEBREWS, AND LATINS IN CALENDRICAL CONFRONTATION; 3.3. THE VAGARIES OF THE SOLAR YEAR; 3.4. ROGER OF HEREFORD'S SYNTHESIS; 4: The Consolidation of a Calendar-Reform Debate in the Thirteenth Century; 4.1. 'VULGAR COMPUTUS' AND THE ERROR OF THE JULIAN CALENDAR |
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4.2. 'PHILOSOPHICAL COMPUTUS' AND THE SCIENCE OF THE ARABS; 4.3. FRANCISCANS, THE POPE, AND THE HEBREW CALENDAR; 5: Astronomers and the Calendar, 1290-1500; 5.1. 'ENHANCED' CALENDARS IN LATE MEDIEVAL EUROPE; 5.2. LATIN ASTRONOMY IN TRANSITION (c.1292-1317); 5.3. THE ALFONSINE TURN; 5.4. ALFONSINE WORRIES; 6: The Papal Reform Project of 1344/5 and Its Protagonists; 6.1. JEAN DES MURS AND CLEMENT VI'S INITIATIVE; 6.2. A RADICAL PROPOSAL; 6.3. INTERLUDE IN CONSTANTINOPLE; 6.4. A LETTER FOR THE POPE; 7: Church Councils and the Question of Easter in the Fifteenth Century |
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7.1. PIERRE D'AILLY AND THE VIA CONCILII7.2. ACCOMPLISHMENT AND FAILURE AT THE COUNCIL OF BASEL; 7.3. CALENDRICAL ASTRONOMY AND THE PRINTING-PRESS IN THE LATER FIFTEENTH CENTURY; 8: The Harvest of Medieval Calendar Reform; References; Index |
| Summary |
The first comprehensive study on the history of calendar reform and calendrical astronomy in medieval Europe, this volume draws on a range of sources over a period of more than 1600 years, from the Julian calendar of 46/45 BC to the Gregorian calendar reform of 1582, to shed new light on the place of astronomy in medieval intellectual culture |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 05, 2018) |
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Calendar reform -- History
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Calendar -- History.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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SCIENCE -- Time.
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Calendar
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Calendar reform
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Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191839818 |
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0191839817 |
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9780192520180 |
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0192520180 |
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