Dating the passion : the life of Jesus and the emergence of scientific chronology, 200-1600 / by C. Philipp E. Nothaft.
Pubblicazione:
Leiden : Brill, 2012.
Descrizione fisica:
VI, 319 p. ; 24 cm
Serie:
Time, astronomy and calendars, 2211-632X ; 1
Contiene:
Indice: Preface. Abbreviations. Introduction. 1. From astronomy to the crucifixion and back 2. The origins of computistical chronography 3. The crisis of computistical chronography in the early middle ages 4. All coherence restored? The age of the critical computists 5. New foundations: chronology and the twelfth-century Renaissance 6. A science of time: Roger Bacon and his successors 7. Time for controversy: Catholic chronologers and the date of the Passion in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries 8. The life of Jesus and the emergence of scientific chronology. Appendix: prominent attempts to date Christ's birth and death (200-1600). Bibliography. Index of Biblical references. Index of names.
