Dating the Passion: The Life of Jesus and the Emergence of Scientific Chronology (200–1600)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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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter One From Astronomy to the Crucifixion and Back | 19 |
Chapter Two The Origins of Computistical Chronography | 35 |
Chapter Three The Crisis of Computistical Chronography in the Early Middle Ages | 69 |
Chapter Four All Coherence Restored? The Age of the Critical Computists | 103 |
Chronology and the TwelfthCentury Renaissance | 113 |
Roger Bacon and his Successors | 155 |
Catholic Chronologers and the Date of the Passion in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries | 203 |
Chapter Eight The Life of Jesus and the Emergence of Scientific Chronology | 261 |
Appendix Prominent Attempts to Date Christs Birth and Death 2001600 | 283 |
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| Title | Dating the Passion: The Life of Jesus and the Emergence of Scientific Chronology (200–1600) Volume 1 of Time, Astronomy, and Calendars |
| Author | C. Philipp E. Nothaft |
| Publisher | BRILL, 2011 |
| ISBN | 9004212191, 9789004212190 |
| Length | 319 pages |
| Subjects | › › Religion / Judaism / Rituals & Practice |
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