Dating the Passion : the Life of Jesus and the Emergence of Scientific Chronology (200-1600).
Nothaft, C. Philipp E.
Dating the Passion : the Life of Jesus and the Emergence of Scientific Chronology (200-1600). - Leiden : BRILL, 2011. - 1 online resource (329 pages) - Time, astronomy, and calendars : texts and studies, v. 1 2211-632X ; . - Time, astronomy, and calendars ; v. 1. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-313).
Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One From Astronomy to the Crucifixion and Back; Chapter Two The Origins of Computistical Chronography; Chapter Three The Crisis of Computistical Chronography in the Early Middle Ages; Chapter Four All Coherence Restored? The Age of the Critical Computists; Chapter Five New Foundations: Chronology and the Twelfth-Century Renaissance; Chapter Six A Science of Time: Roger Bacon and his Successors; Chapter Seven Time for Controversy: Catholic Chronologers and the Date of the Passion in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. Chapter Eight The Life of Jesus and the Emergence of Scientific ChronologyAppendix Prominent Attempts to Date Christ's Birth and Death (200-1600); Bibliography; Index of Biblical References; Index of Names.
Drawing on computistical and astronomical sources from late antiquity to the Renaissance, this book demonstrates how pre-modern Christian attempts to determine the principal dates of the life of Jesus played an essential role in the development of historical chronology.
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9786613292414
329241 MIL
Chronology--History.
History--Methodology.
Chronology--Historiography.
Calendar--History.
Chronologie--Histoire.
Histoire--Méthodologie.
Chronologie--Historiographie.
SCIENCE--Time.
Calendar
Chronology
History--Methodology
History
CE6 .N68 2011
529
Dating the Passion : the Life of Jesus and the Emergence of Scientific Chronology (200-1600). - Leiden : BRILL, 2011. - 1 online resource (329 pages) - Time, astronomy, and calendars : texts and studies, v. 1 2211-632X ; . - Time, astronomy, and calendars ; v. 1. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-313).
Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One From Astronomy to the Crucifixion and Back; Chapter Two The Origins of Computistical Chronography; Chapter Three The Crisis of Computistical Chronography in the Early Middle Ages; Chapter Four All Coherence Restored? The Age of the Critical Computists; Chapter Five New Foundations: Chronology and the Twelfth-Century Renaissance; Chapter Six A Science of Time: Roger Bacon and his Successors; Chapter Seven Time for Controversy: Catholic Chronologers and the Date of the Passion in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. Chapter Eight The Life of Jesus and the Emergence of Scientific ChronologyAppendix Prominent Attempts to Date Christ's Birth and Death (200-1600); Bibliography; Index of Biblical References; Index of Names.
Drawing on computistical and astronomical sources from late antiquity to the Renaissance, this book demonstrates how pre-modern Christian attempts to determine the principal dates of the life of Jesus played an essential role in the development of historical chronology.
9789004217072 900421707X 9786613292414 6613292419 1283292416 9781283292412 9789004212190 9004212191
9786613292414
329241 MIL
Chronology--History.
History--Methodology.
Chronology--Historiography.
Calendar--History.
Chronologie--Histoire.
Histoire--Méthodologie.
Chronologie--Historiographie.
SCIENCE--Time.
Calendar
Chronology
History--Methodology
History
CE6 .N68 2011
529