Bede: The Reckoning of Time

by Bede

From the patristic age until the Gregorian calendar reform of 1582, computus - the science of time reckoning and art of calendar construction - was a subject of intense concern to medieval people. 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. The Reckoning of Time is a systematic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0853236933
• ISBN13: 9780853236931
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.3"