IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1330: Intellectual and Political Borders of Time Reckoning in Early Medieval Europe
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Irish Research Council Project 'The Irish Foundation of Carolingian Europe (IFCE): The Case of Calendrical Science (Computus)' |
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| Organiser: | Christian Schweizer, Medieval History Research Centre, Trinity College Dublin |
| Moderator/Chair: | Immo Warntjes, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin |
| Paper 1330-a | The Easter Controversy in Northumbria after the Synod of Whitby, 664-672 (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Politics and Diplomacy, Science |
| Paper 1330-b | Borders in Dicuil's De cursu solis lunaeque (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Science |
| Paper 1330-c | Beyond Borders: Object-Oriented Cataloguing and the Influence of Peripheral Intellectual Ideas on the Carolingian Centre (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Science |
| Abstract | This session analyses various intellectual and political borders related to early medieval time reckoning. Different reckonings of Easter became a political and religious issue during the Easter Controversy. Regional councils attempting to unify the reckoning, like at Whitby, had limited success: the controversy was revived by increasing Papal influence. At the Carolingian court, Alcuin and Dicuil mentioned disagreements among Anglian and Irish scholars. Concurrently, computists crossed disciplinary boundaries towards the artes liberales, and ideas from the periphery crossed borders through intellectual networks. Modern scholars tackle these topics by delineating individual ideas within manuscripts, and by working in a borderland of disciplines themselves. |