IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 528: Bede and Time, I: Time Reckoning in the Age of Bede

Sponsor:	5th International Conference on the Science of Computus in Ireland & Europe, Galway
Organisers:	Peter Darby, Department of History, University of Nottingham Máirín MacCarron, Department of History, National University of Ireland, Galway
Moderator/Chair:	Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, Department of History, National University of Ireland, Galway
Paper 528-a	Bede's horologium: Observational Astronomy and the Problem of the Equinoxes in the Early Middle Ages (Language: English) Philipp Nothaft, Warburg Institute, University of London Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Science
Paper 528-b	Beyond Bede and the Carolingian Classroom: The Newly Discovered Computus of 754 (Language: English) Immo Warntjes, School of History & Anthropology, Queen's University Belfast Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Science
Abstract	This strand explores the concept of Time in the Age of Bede using textual and material evidence. Session I focuses on the reckoning of time in the works of Bede and his contemporaries: paper A (Nothaft) examines efforts to accurately observe the equinoxes in the Middle Ages; paper B (Ohashi) discusses attacks on another 'Roman' method of calculating Easter, that of Victorius of Aquitaine, in Northumbria; paper C (Warntjes) argues that Willibrord introduced science, the Dionysian Easter, and AD reckoning to Francia, and caused an additional Easter controversy unnoticed in modern scholarship.