TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nothaft,C.Philipp E.
TI  - Dating the Passion: the Life of Jesus and the Emergence of Scientific Chronology (200-1600)
SN  - 9789004217072 (electronic bk.)
AV  - CE6 .N68 2011 
U1  - 529 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Leiden
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Calendar
KW  - History
KW  - Chronology
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Astronomy
KW  - Science
KW  - SCIENCE / Time
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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