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The first comprehensive study on the history of calendar reform and calendrical astronomy in medieval Europe, this volume draws on a range of sources over a period of more than 1600 years, from the Julian calendar of 46/45 BC to the Gregorian calendar reform of 1582, to shed new light on the place o...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
The first comprehensive study on the history of calendar reform and calendrical astronomy in medieval Europe, this volume draws on a range of sources over a period of more than 1600 years, from the Julian calendar of 46/45 BC to the Gregorian calendar reform of 1582, to shed new light on the place of astronomy in medieval intellectual culture. |
| Carrier Form: | xvii, 357 pages : illustrations, forms ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-347) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780198799559 (hardback : alkaline paper) : 0198799551 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | CE73 |
| CLC: | P194-09 |
| Call Number: | P194-09/N912 |
| Contents: | The Julian calendar and the problem of the equinoxes in the early Middle Ages -- The ecclesiastical lunar calendar and its critics, 300-1100 -- Calendrical astronomy in the twelfth century -- The consolidation of a calendar-reform debate in the thirteenth century -- Astronomers and the calendar, 1290-1500 -- The papal reform project of 1344/5 and its protagonists -- Church councils and the question of Easter in the fifteenth century -- The harvest of medieval calendar reform. |