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Bede: The Reckoning of Time (Paperback, illustrated edition)

Bede; Translated by Faith Wallis; Commentary by Faith Wallis

Series: Translated Texts for Historians, 29

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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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Imprint: Liverpool University Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Translated Texts for Historians, 29
Release date: February 1999
Authors: Bede
Translators: Faith Wallis
Commentary by: Faith Wallis
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 40mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: illustrated edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-85323-693-1
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Time (chronology) > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Christian theology > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Christian theology > General
Books > Christianity > Christian theology
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Barcode: 9780853236931

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