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Medieval Time: Chronologies

Library and internet materials for research on aspects of Medieval time and the study of chronology.

Overview

Intended as an overview of available secondary works. Grouped into the following categories:

Surveys
Computus
Collected Articles on Chronology

Computus

The Easter Computus and the Origins of the Christian Era by Alden A. Mosshammer
Call Number: CE83 .M65 2008

Paschal table, 2nd half of the 13th century
British Library MS Harley 3735, f. 14v

Cycles of Time and Scientific Learning in Medieval Europe by Wesley Stevens
Call Number: QB23 .S74 1995
Bede, the Schools, and the Computus by Charles W. Jones; Wesley M. Stevens (Editor)
Call Number: PA8260 .J66 1994
Anno Domini: the origins of the Christian era by G. Declercq
Call Number: CE51 .D42 2000
Le calcul de la date de Pâques au Moyen Age : analyse et commentaires sur "De temporum ratione" de Bede by Roland-Pierre Pillonel-Wyrsch
Call Number: CE83 .P555 2004

Surveys

Medieval Studies: an introduction by James M. Powell (Editor)
Call Number: D116 .M4 1992
Contains a detailed survey entitled "Medieval Chronology: Theory and Practice" by R. Dean Ware, 252-277.
The Measure of Times Past: pre-Newtonian chronologies and the rhetoric of relative time by Donald J. Wilcox
Call Number: D11 .W59 1987
Publication Date: 1994-12-14
Time in Antiquity by Robert Hannah
Call Number: QB209 .H26 2009
ISBN: 9780415331562
Publication Date: 2009
Time in Antiquity explores the different perceptions of time from Classical antiquity, principally through the technology designed to measure, mark or tell time. The material discussed ranges from the sixth century BC in archaic Greece to the 3rd century AD in the Roman Empire, and offers fascinating insights into ordinary people's perceptions of time and time-keeping instruments.

Collected Articles

Studia chronologica : estudios sobre manuscritos latinos de cómputo by Joan Gómez Pallarés (Editor)
Call Number: CE57 .G65 1999
Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
"Lest the Millenium be Fulfilled: Apocalyptic Expectations and the Pattern of Western Chronology 100-800 C.E. " by Richard Landes
Call Number: BT820 .U83 1988
In The Use and Abuse of Eschatology in the Middle Ages, edited by Werner Verbeke, Daniel Verhelst and Andres Wekenhysen, 137-211.
The Pace of Change: studies in early-medieval chronology by John Hines (Editor); Karen Hoilund Nielsen (Editor); Frank Siegmund (Editor)
Call Number: D125 .P33 1999
Gregorian reform of the calendar : proceedings of the Vatican Conference to commemorate its 400th anniversary, 1582-1982 by G.V. Coyne, M.A. Hoskin and O. Pedersen (Editors)
Call Number: QB29 .G73 1983
Julius Africanus und Die Christliche Weltchronik by Martin Wallraff
Call Number: BR45 .T4 Bd.157
Papers presented at an international symposium held in Eisenach, Germany, May 12-21, 2005.
Calendar and Chronology, Jewish and Christian: biblical, intertestamental and patristic studies by Roger T. Beckwith
Call Number: BS680.T54 B43 1996
Studies in Eusebian and Post-Eusebian Chronography by Richard W. Burgess; Witold Witakowski
Call Number: BR160.E55 B87 1999
The Fifth-Century Chroniclers by Steven Muhlberger:Prosper, Hydatius and the Gallic Chronicle of 452
Call Number: D56.5 .M85 1990