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The Muslim and Christian calendars : being tables for the conversion of Muslim and Christian dates from the Hijra to the year A.D. 2000.
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ISBN: 0860360598 9780860360599 Year: 1977 Publisher: London Collings


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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
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ISBN: 9782503533179 2503533175 9782503538822 Year: 2010 Volume: 5 Publisher: Turnhout Brepols

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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.

Cummian's letter De controversia paschali : together with a related Irish computistical tract De ratione conputandi
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ISBN: 0888440863 9780888440860 Year: 1988 Volume: 86 Publisher: Toronto Pontifical institute of mediaeval studies

Schriften zur Komputistik im Frankenreich von 721 bis 818
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ISBN: 3775210210 9783775210218 Year: 2006 Volume: 21 Publisher: Hannover : Hahnsche Buchhandlung,

De decursu temporum
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ISBN: 3775210199 9783775210195 Year: 2004 Volume: 19 Publisher: Hannovre : Hahnsche Buchhandlung,


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Die Eigenkalender des deutschen und niederländischen Sprachgebietes : mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Erzdiözese Köln.
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ISBN: 3877100740 9783877100745 Year: 1977 Volume: 14 Publisher: Siegburg Schmitt

Der karolingische Reichskalender und seine Überlieferung bis ins 12. Jahrhundert. Teil 1
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ISBN: 3775209026 9783775209021 Year: 2001 Volume: 2 Publisher: Hannovre : Hahnsche Buchhandlung,


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The Easter controversy of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages : its manuscripts, texts, and tables : proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on the Science of Computus in Ireland and Europe, Galway, 18-20 July, 2008
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ISBN: 9782503536682 2503536689 9782503539706 Year: 2011 Volume: 10 Publisher: Turnhout Brepols

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2010 saw the publication of the Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on the Science of Computus in Ireland and Europe, which took place in Galway, 14–16 July, 2006. That first collection, which had the sub-title Computus and its Cultural Context in the Latin West, AD 300–1200, brought together papers by ten of the leading scholars in the field, on subjects ranging from the origins of the Annus Domini to the study of computus in Ireland c. 1100. All those who participated in the Conference were unanimous that a second, follow-up event should be organized, and that duly took place (also in Galway), 18–20 July, 2008. The proceedings of that Conference are published in this current volume. The topics covered in the 2nd Galway Conference ranged from the general – but vitally important – vocabulary of computus (i.e., the technical terminology developed by computists to describe what they were doing) to the origins of the different systems used to calculate the date of Easter in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. In addition, there was discussion also of the great debates about Easter, epitomized by the famous Synod of Whitby in AD 664, and the role of well-known individuals in the evolution of computistical knowledge (e.g., Anatolius of Laodicea, the African Augustalis, Sulpicius Severus, Victorius of Aquitaine, Cassiodorus, Dionysius Exiguus, Willibrord, the ninth-century Irish scholar-exile, Dicuil, as well as the late-tenth century Abbo of Fleury).


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The Easter computus and the origins of the Christian era
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ISBN: 9780199543120 0199543127 0191720062 9786611978679 1281978671 019156236X Year: 2008 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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The system of numbering the years AD (Anni Domini, Years of the Lord) originated with Dionysius Exiguus. Dionysius drafted a 95-year table of dates for Easter beginning with the year 532 AD. Why Dionysius chose the year that he did to number as '1' has been a source of controversy and speculation for almost 1500 years. According to the Gospel of Luke (3.1; 3.23), Jesus was baptized in the 15th year of the emperor Tiberius and was about 30 years old at the time. The 15th year of Tiberius was AD 29. If Jesus was 30 years old in AD 29, then he was born in the year that we call 2 BC. Most ancient authorities dated the Nativity accordingly.Alden Mosshammer provides the first comprehensive study of early Christian methods for calculating the date of Easter to have appeared in English in more than one hundred years. He offers an entirely new history of those methods, both Latin and Greek, from the earliest such calculations in the late second century until the emergence of the Byzantine era in the seventh century. From this history, Mosshammer draws the fresh hypothesis that Dionysius did not calculate or otherwise invent a new date for the birth of Jesus, instead adopting a date that was already well established in the Greek church. Mosshammer offers compelling new conclusions on the origins of the Christian era drawing upon evidence found in the fragments of Julius Africanus, of Panodorus of Alexandria, and in the traditions of the Armenian church.

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