From the patristic age until the Gregorian calendar reform of 1582,
computus -- the science of time reckoning and art of calendar
construction -- was a matter of intense concern. Bede's The
Reckoning of Time (De temporum ratione) was the first comprehensive
treatise on this subject and the model and reference for all
subsequent teaching discussion and criticism of the Christian
calendar. It is a systematic exposition of the Julian solar
calendar and the Paschal table of Dionysius Exiguus, with their
related formulae for calculating dates. But it is more than a
technical handbook. Bede sets calendar lore within a broad
scientific framework and a coherent Christian concept of time, and
incorporates themes as diverse as the theory of tides and the
doctrine of the millennium.
This translation of the full text of The Reckoning of Time
includes an extensive historical introduction and a
chapter-by-chapter commentary. It will interest historians of
medieval science, theology, and education, Bede scholars and
Anglo-Saxonists, liturgists, and Church historians. It will also
serve as an accessible introduction to computus itself. Generations
of medieval computists nourished their expertise in Bede's orderly
presentation; modern scholars in quest of safe passage through this
complex terrain can hope for no better guide.
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