Bede, The Reckoning of Time

Bede, The Reckoning of Time
Author: Beda (Venerabilis.)
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 585
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0853236933

From the patristic age until the Gregorian calendar reform of 1582, computus -- the science of time reckoning and art of calendar construction -- was a matter of intense concern. Bede's The Reckoning of Time (De temporum ratione) was the first comprehensive treatise on this subject and the model and reference for all subsequent teaching discussion and criticism of the Christian calendar. It is a systematic exposition of the Julian solar calendar and the Paschal table of Dionysius Exiguus, with their related formulae for calculating dates. But it is more than a technical handbook. Bede sets calendar lore within a broad scientific framework and a coherent Christian concept of time, and incorporates themes as diverse as the theory of tides and the doctrine of the millennium. This translation of the full text of The Reckoning of Time includes an extensive historical introduction and a chapter-by-chapter commentary. It will interest historians of medieval science, theology, and education, Bede scholars and Anglo-Saxonists, liturgists, and Church historians. It will also serve as an accessible introduction to computus itself. Generations of medieval computists nourished their expertise in Bede's orderly presentation; modern scholars in quest of safe passage through this complex terrain can hope for no better guide.

History of the Hour

History of the Hour
Author: Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 492
Release: 1996-06-15
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780226155104

This text provides an overview of the history of the mechanical clock and its effects on European society from the late Middle Ages to the industrial revolution. The book provides a discussion of how mechanical clocks functioned in cities and dispels many

American Hour

American Hour
Author: Os Guinness
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1993-05-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1439105987

An internationally known writer and speaker on religion and public life brilliantly analyzes the causes of our current moral malaise. Os Guinness examines how perilously close we have come to losing the shared beliefs, traditions, and ideals that have helped shape America and sets forth a compelling view of a new role for religion and faith.

Shaping the Day

Shaping the Day
Author: Paul Glennie
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Total Pages: 479
Release: 2009-02-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199278202

Timekeeping is an essential activity in the modern world, and we take it for granted that our lives are shaped by the hours of the day. Yet what seems so ordinary today is actually the extraordinary outcome of centuries of technical innovation and circulation of ideas about time. Shaping the Day is a pathbreaking study of the practice of timekeeping in England and Wales between 1300 and 1800. Drawing on many unique historical sources, ranging from personal diaries to housekeeping manuals, Paul Glennie and Nigel Thrift illustrate how a particular kind of common sense about time came into being, and how it developed during this period. Many remarkable figures make their appearance, ranging from the well-known, such as Edmund Halley, Samuel Pepys, and John Harrison, who solved the problem of longitude, to less familiar characters, including sailors, gamblers, and burglars. Overturning many common perceptions of the past-for example, that clock time and the industrial revolution were intimately related-this unique historical study will engage all readers interested in how 'telling the time' has come to dominate our way of life.

Time in the Eternal City

Time in the Eternal City
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2020-10-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004436251

Time in the Eternal City is a major contribution to the study of time and its numerous aspects in late medieval and Renaissance Rome.

The Believer's Guide to Bible Chronology

The Believer's Guide to Bible Chronology
Author: Charles Ozanne
Publisher: Author House
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2011-01-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1467003611

In this work the whole panorama of Bible Chronology has been subjected to close examination from the creation of Adam to the end of Acts. The aim has been to open up that system of dating which commends itself as most probably correct from the biblical perspective. Having done that he has looked for ways to harmonise the resultant scheme with the contradictory dates derived from the Assyrian Eponym Canon, and would like to think that he has succeeded in some measure in explaining how the discrepancies arose.