C. Philipp E. Nothaft

Scandalous Error: Calendar Reform and Calendrical Astronomy in Medieval Europe

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 167mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 736g
• ISBN-13: 9780198799559
• ISBN-10: 0198799551
• Artikelnr.: 49275198

Autorenporträt

C. Philipp E. Nothaft studied modern history, ancient history, and philosophy at the University of Munich, leaving with a PhD in modern history in 2011. He has since held positions at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, at University College London, and at the Warburg Institute (University of London). He is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. His past publications include three books and about forty articles, most of them revolving around the history of calendars, chronology, and astronomy in medieval and early modern Europe.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: The Julian calendar and the problem of the equinoxes in the early
Middle Ages
* 2: The ecclesiastical lunar calendar and its critics, 300-1100
* 3: Calendrical astronomy in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance
* 4: The consolidation of a calendar reform debate in the thirteenth
century
* 5: Astronomers and the calendar, 1290-1500
* 6: The papal reform project of 1344/45 and its protagonists
* 7: Church councils and the question of Easter in the fifteenth
century
* 8: The harvest of medieval calendar reform
* References