Easter Computus and the Origins of the Christian Era

Auteur: Mosshammer, Alden A. (Professor of History (Emeritus) University of California, San Diego)
Editeur: Oxford University Press
This is the first comprehensive study in English of early Christian methods for calculating the phases of the moon and the date for Easter Sunday to have appeared in more than one hundred years. It offers a new explanation of how the system of numbering the years AD (Anni Domini, Years of the Lord) originated.
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This is the first comprehensive study in English of early Christian methods for calculating the phases of the moon and the date for Easter Sunday to have appeared in more than one hundred years. It offers a new explanation of how the system of numbering the years AD (Anni Domini, Years of the Lord) originated.
ISBN / EAN 9780199543120
Auteur Mosshammer, Alden A. (Professor of History (Emeritus) University of California, San Diego)
Editeur Oxford University Press