Bede was the leading intellectual figure of the early Anglo-Saxon Church, and his extensive corpus of writings encompassed themes of exegesis, computus, history and hagiography. This book argues that in innovatively combining computus, theology and history, Bede transformed his contemporaries' understanding of time and chronology.
Bede was the leading intellectual figure of the early Anglo-Saxon Church, and his extensive corpus of writings encompassed themes of exegesis, computus, history and hagiography. This book argues that in innovatively combining computus, theology and history, Bede transformed his contemporaries' understanding of time and chronology.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Máirín MacCarron is Lecturer in Digital Humanities at University College Cork, having previously held posts at NUI Galway and the University of Sheffield. Her research interests include Time, Chronology and the writing of History; Women in the Middle Ages; and Digital approaches to studying the past.
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Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Computus, Contexts and Controversies Chapter 1: De temporibus * Transmission and Terminology of Bede's works on Time * Insular computistica * Structure and content of computistical textbooks * De temporibus and Insular computus tradition * Why did Bede write De temporibus? Chapter 2: The De temporibus chronicle * Structure of the De temporibus chronicle * Purpose of the De temporibus chronicle * Terminology and titles for Bede's chronicles Chapter 3: Bede's Anno Mundi chronology and the 'Chronicle of 703' * Chronography in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages * Chronology in the Insular World * Why did Bede use Vulgate chronology? * Conclusion Chapter 4: Bede's chronicles: contents and sources * First to Fifth World Ages * Sixth World Age * Conclusion Chapter 5: Nativity and Incarnation in Bede's Theology of Time * Baptism, Passion and Nativity in World Chronicle Tradition * Bede and counting time from the coming of Christ * Nativity and Incarnation in Bede's thought * Nativity and Incarnation in early medieval theology Chapter 6: Bede, Dionysius Exiguus and Anno Domini chronology * Annus Domini prior to the seventh century * Anglo-Saxon England * Willibrord and Francia * Bede and Annus Domini in the Historia Ecclesiastica Afterword Appendix 1: Table of chapter headings in Bede's De temporibus and his principal sources Appendix 2: Table of key chronological events in the Chronicle of Eusebius and Jerome Appendix 3: Chronological comparison of Bede's chronicles Appendix 4: Table of Popes in the Liber Pontificalis, De temporibus 22 and De temporum ratione 66 Appendix 5: Incarnation dating clauses in the Historia Ecclesiastica Appendix 6: Comparison of Bede's AD-years in the Historia Ecclesiastica with AD-years calculated from his chronicles Glossary Bibliography Index
Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Computus, Contexts and Controversies Chapter 1: De temporibus * Transmission and Terminology of Bede's works on Time * Insular computistica * Structure and content of computistical textbooks * De temporibus and Insular computus tradition * Why did Bede write De temporibus? Chapter 2: The De temporibus chronicle * Structure of the De temporibus chronicle * Purpose of the De temporibus chronicle * Terminology and titles for Bede's chronicles Chapter 3: Bede's Anno Mundi chronology and the 'Chronicle of 703' * Chronography in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages * Chronology in the Insular World * Why did Bede use Vulgate chronology? * Conclusion Chapter 4: Bede's chronicles: contents and sources * First to Fifth World Ages * Sixth World Age * Conclusion Chapter 5: Nativity and Incarnation in Bede's Theology of Time * Baptism, Passion and Nativity in World Chronicle Tradition * Bede and counting time from the coming of Christ * Nativity and Incarnation in Bede's thought * Nativity and Incarnation in early medieval theology Chapter 6: Bede, Dionysius Exiguus and Anno Domini chronology * Annus Domini prior to the seventh century * Anglo-Saxon England * Willibrord and Francia * Bede and Annus Domini in the Historia Ecclesiastica Afterword Appendix 1: Table of chapter headings in Bede's De temporibus and his principal sources Appendix 2: Table of key chronological events in the Chronicle of Eusebius and Jerome Appendix 3: Chronological comparison of Bede's chronicles Appendix 4: Table of Popes in the Liber Pontificalis, De temporibus 22 and De temporum ratione 66 Appendix 5: Incarnation dating clauses in the Historia Ecclesiastica Appendix 6: Comparison of Bede's AD-years in the Historia Ecclesiastica with AD-years calculated from his chronicles Glossary Bibliography Index
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