Alden A Mosshammer

The Easter Computus and the Origins of the Christian Era

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first comprehensive study in English of early Christian methods for calculating the phases of the moon and the date for Easter Sunday to have appeared in more than one hundred years. It offers a new explanation of how the system of numbering the years AD (Anni Domini, Years of the Lord) originated.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 862g
• ISBN-13: 9780199543120
• ISBN-10: 0199543127
• Artikelnr.: 24765961

Inhaltsangabe

I: Contexts
1: Introduction
2: Chronological Systems
3: Easter and the Passover Moon
II: The Easter Tables of Dionysius Exiguus
4: The Letters to Boniface and Petronius
5: The Structure of the 19-year Cycle
6: The Computistical Rules
III: Paschal Calculations in Early Christianity
7: The 8-year Cycle and the Invention of the Epacts
8: The 19-year cycle of Anatolius
9: Athanasius and the Council of Sardica
10: The Classical Alexandrian Cycle
11: Paschal Calculations at Rome
12: Paschal Calculations in the Eastern Empire
13: The Chronicon Paschale and the origins of the Byzantine era
IV: The Origins of the Christian era
14: Evidence for the chronology of Jesus
15: The Christian era of Dionysius Exiguus
16: The Christian era of Panodorus
17: The Christian era of Julius Africanus
18: Anatolius and the Christian era
Bibliography
Index