| Description |
1 online resource (329 pages) |
| Series |
Time, astronomy, and calendars : texts and studies, 2211-632X ; v. 1 |
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Time, astronomy, and calendars ; v. 1.
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| Contents |
Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One From Astronomy to the Crucifixion and Back; Chapter Two The Origins of Computistical Chronography; Chapter Three The Crisis of Computistical Chronography in the Early Middle Ages; Chapter Four All Coherence Restored? The Age of the Critical Computists; Chapter Five New Foundations: Chronology and the Twelfth-Century Renaissance; Chapter Six A Science of Time: Roger Bacon and his Successors; Chapter Seven Time for Controversy: Catholic Chronologers and the Date of the Passion in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries |
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Chapter Eight The Life of Jesus and the Emergence of Scientific ChronologyAppendix Prominent Attempts to Date Christ's Birth and Death (200-1600); Bibliography; Index of Biblical References; Index of Names |
| Summary |
Drawing on computistical and astronomical sources from late antiquity to the Renaissance, this book demonstrates how pre-modern Christian attempts to determine the principal dates of the life of Jesus played an essential role in the development of historical chronology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-313) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Chronology -- History
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History -- Methodology.
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Chronology -- Historiography
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Calendar -- History.
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SCIENCE -- Time.
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Calendar
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Chronology
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History -- Methodology
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004217072 |
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900421707X |
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9786613292414 |
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6613292419 |
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1283292416 |
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9781283292412 |
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9789004212190 |
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9004212191 |
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