TY - BOOK ID - 23449851 TI - Computus and its cultural context in the Latin West, AD 300-1200 : proceedings of the 1st international conference on the science of Computus in Ireland and Europe, Galway, 14-16 July 2006 AU - Warntjes, Immo AU - Ó Cróinín, Dáibhí AU - Brepols PY - 2010 VL - 5 SN - 9782503533179 2503533175 9782503538822 PB - Turnhout Brepols DB - UniCat KW - Conferences - Meetings KW - Calendar KW - Church calendar KW - Calendrier KW - Calendrier liturgique KW - History KW - Histoire KW - Europe KW - To 1500 KW - Congresses KW - Calendar, Ecclesiastical KW - Computus ecclesiasticus KW - Ecclesiastical calendar KW - Heortology KW - Religious calendars KW - Fasts and feasts KW - Computus KW - Astronomy KW - Chronology, Historical KW - Chronology KW - Christianity UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:23449851 AB - The scientific knowledge that Irish, English, and continental European scholars nurtured and developed during the years c. AD 500 to c. AD 1200 was assimilated, in the first place, from the wider Roman world of Late Antiquity. Time-reckoning, calendars, and the minute reckonings required to compute the date of Easter, all involved the minutiae of mathematics (incl. the original concept of ‘digital calculation’) and astronomical observation in a truly scientific fashion. In fact, the ‘Dark Ages’ were anything but dark in the fields of mathematics and astronomy.The first Science of Computus conference in Galway in 2006 highlighted the transmission of Late Antique Mathematical Knowledge in Ireland & Europe, the development of astronomy in Early Medieval Ireland & Europe and the role of the Irish in the development of computistical mathematics. The proceedings of that conference should, therefore, appeal equally to those interested in the history of science in Ireland and Europe, and in the origins of present-day mathematical and astronomical ideas. ER -