Bede: The Reckoning of Time
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
978-0-85323-693-1 (ISBN)
Faith Wallis is Professor Emerita at McGill University in Montreal. Her research focuses on the textual and manuscript transmission of medical and scientific knowledge in the Middle Ages. Her many books include Bede: Commentary on the Gospel of Luke (with Calvin B. Kendall, 2024), Isidore of Seville: On the Nature of Things (2016), Bede: Commentary on Revelation (2013), all in the Liverpool University Press Translated Texts for Historians series.
Introduction 1. 'Our little book about the fleeting and wave-tossed course of time...' 2. Computus as a problem-solving instrument: from the Patristic period to the time of Bede 3. Computus as pedagogy 4. Reception and diffusion 5. Principles governing this translation
Bede: The Reckoning of Time
Commentary
Appendices 1. Bede's solar calendar 2. Bede's Dionysian Paschal tables
3a. Letter to Plegwine
3b. Letter to Helmwald
3c. Letter to Wichthed 4. Glossary of select computus terminology 5. Checklist of Manuscripts of The Reckoning of Time
Bibliography
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.2.1999 |
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Reihe/Serie | Translated Texts for Historians ; 29 |
Übersetzer | Faith Wallis |
Zusatzinfo | 8 Illustrations, black and white |
Verlagsort | Liverpool |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 147 x 210 mm |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften ► Chronologie |
Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik | |
ISBN-10 | 0-85323-693-3 / 0853236933 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-85323-693-1 / 9780853236931 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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