Computus and its Cultural Context in the Latin West, AD 300-1200: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on the Science of Computus in Ireland and Europe, Galway, 14-16 July, 2006

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The scientific knowledge that Irish, English, and continental European scholars nurtured and developed during the years c. AD 500 to c. AD 1200 was assimilated, in the first place, from the wider Roman world of Late Antiquity. Time-reckoning, calendars, and the minute reckonings required to compute the date of Easter, all involved the minutiae of mathematics (incl. the original concept of ‘digital calculation’) and astronomical observation in a truly scientific fashion. In fact, the ‘Dark Ages’ were anything but dark in the fields of mathematics and astronomy. The first Science of Computus conference in Galway in 2006 highlighted the transmission of Late Antique Mathematical Knowledge in Ireland & Europe, the development of astronomy in Early Medieval Ireland & Europe and the role of the Irish in the development of computistical mathematics. The proceedings of that conference should, therefore, appeal equally to those interested in the history of science in Ireland and Europe, and in the origins of present-day mathematical and astronomical ideas. Front matter (“Contents”, “Abbreviations”, “Foreword”), p. i Free Access Les Pâques baptismales d’Augustin d’Hippone, une étape contournée dans l’unification des pratiques computistes latines, p. 1 Max Lejbowicz https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.3.3879 The argumenta of Dionysius Exiguus and their early recensions, p. 40 Immo Warntjes https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.3.3880 The recension of two Sirmond texts: Disputatio Morini and De divisionibus temporum, p. 112 Eric Graff https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.3.3881 Marital discord in Northumbria: Lent and Easter, his and hers, p. 143 Leofranc Holford-Strevens https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.3.3882 Bede’s primary source for the Vulgate chronology in his chronicles in De temporibus and De temporum ratione, p. 159 Daniel Mc Carthy https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.3.3883 The Annus Domini and the sexta aetas: problems in the transmission of Bede’s De temporibus, p. 190 Masako Ohashi https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.3.3884 Eine Beschreibung der Handschrift St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 225, p. 204 Kerstin Springsfeld https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.3.3885 Karolingische Reformkalender und die Fixierung der christlichen Zeitrechnung, p. 238 Brigitte Englisch https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.3.3886 Computus in Hiberno-Latin literature, p. 259 David Howlett https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.3.3887 The continuity of the Irish computistical tradition, p. 324 Dáibhí Ó Cróinín https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.3.3888 Back matter (“Bibliography”, “Indices”), p. 349 Free Access