Author: John James BondPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Handy Book of Rules and Tables for Verifying Dates of Historical Events, and of Public and Private Documents; Giving Tables of Regnal Years of English Sovereigns ... 1066-1866 by John J. Bond
Author: John James BondPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Handy-book of Rules and Tables for Verifying Dates of Historical Events, and of Public and Private Documents
Author: John James BondPublisher:
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Category : Calendar
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Handy-book of Rules and Tables for Verifying Dates with the Christian Era
Author: John James BondPublisher:
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Category : Calendar
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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The Easter Computus and the Origins of the Christian Era
Author: Alden A. MosshammerPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019156236X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The system of numbering the years AD (Anni Domini, Years of the Lord) originated with Dionysius Exiguus. Dionysius drafted a 95-year table of dates for Easter beginning with the year 532 AD. Why Dionysius chose the year that he did to number as '1' has been a source of controversy and speculation for almost 1500 years. According to the Gospel of Luke (3.1; 3.23), Jesus was baptized in the 15th year of the emperor Tiberius and was about 30 years old at the time. The 15th year of Tiberius was AD 29. If Jesus was 30 years old in AD 29, then he was born in the year that we call 2 BC. Most ancient authorities dated the Nativity accordingly. Alden Mosshammer provides the first comprehensive study of early Christian methods for calculating the date of Easter to have appeared in English in more than one hundred years. He offers an entirely new history of those methods, both Latin and Greek, from the earliest such calculations in the late second century until the emergence of the Byzantine era in the seventh century. From this history, Mosshammer draws the fresh hypothesis that Dionysius did not calculate or otherwise invent a new date for the birth of Jesus, instead adopting a date that was already well established in the Greek church. Mosshammer offers compelling new conclusions on the origins of the Christian era drawing upon evidence found in the fragments of Julius Africanus, of Panodorus of Alexandria, and in the traditions of the Armenian church.
Chronicles of the Tombs
Author: Thomas Joseph PettigrewPublisher:
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Category : Epitaphs
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Johnson's Lives of the Poets
Author: Samuel JohnsonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Shakespeare's Dramatic Art
Author: Hermann UlriciPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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The Poems of Horace
Author: HoracePublisher:
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Category : Latin poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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The Greek Romances of Heliodorus, Longus and Achilles Tatius
Author: Rowland SmithPublisher:
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Category : Greek literature
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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The Proem to the Ideal Commonwealth of Plato
Author: PlatoPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 364
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