the Life of Jesus and the Emergence of Scientific Chronology (200-1600) Nothaft, C. Philipp E. creator text Electronic books. ne Leiden BRILL 2011 monographic eng

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1 online resource (329 p.) 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. 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. Calendar History Chronology Historiography Chronology History History Methodology Astronomy Science History Chronology History History Methodology Chronology Historiography Calendar History SCIENCE / Time CE6 .N68 2011 529 Nothaft, C. Philipp E. Leiden : BRILL, c2011 9789004217072 (electronic bk.) 900421707X (electronic bk.) http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=783301 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=394339 http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=783301 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=394339 EBLCP 111010 20200709055425.0 ocn756484387 eng