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Medieval Liturgy: Calendars

Library and internet resources about the medieval liturgy.

Overview

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

Surveys
Christian Calendars
Collected Articles
Computus
Liturgical Calendars
Saints Calendars
Libguide: Medieval Time
For additional information on medieval calendars, see our Libguide "Medieval Time"

Surveys

Mapping Time: the calendar and its history by E. G. Richards
Call Number: CE11 .R5 1998
The Ordering of Time: from the ancient computus to the modern computer by Arno Borst; Andrew Winnard (Translator)
Call Number: CE6 .B6713 1993
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

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 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

Christian Calendars

Calendar page for May, 1st quarter of the 15th century
British Library MS Harley 2332, f. 5v

Der Streit um die Zeit : Zeitmessung, Kalenderreform, Gegenzeit, Endzeit by Markwart Herzog (Editor)
Call Number: CE6 .S77 2002
Der Streit um den karolingischen Kalender by Arno Borst
Call Number: DD3 .M86 v.36
Die karolingische Kalenderreform by Arno Borst
Call Number: DD3 .M83 Bd.46
The Christian calendar and the Gregorian reform by Peter Archer
Call Number: CE73 .A7

"Perpetual yearly calendar" in envelope mounted on cover.
The calendar pages of medieval service books : an introductory note for art historians by F. P. Pickering
Call Number: CE55 .P5 1980

Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
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
"Ut reiecto paschali errore veritati insistamus" : Nikolaus von Kues und seine Konzilsschrift De reparatione kalendarii by Tom Müller
Call Number: BX4705.N58 C8 Bd.17

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

Publication Date: 1988

In The Use and Abuse of Eschatology in the Middle Ages, edited by Werner Verbeke, Daniel Verhelst and Andres Wekenhysen, 137-211.
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.
Studies in Eusebian and Post-Eusebian Chronography by Richard W. Burgess; Witold Witakowski
Call Number: BR160.E55 B87 1999

Liturgical Calendars

Culture and Religion in Merovingian Gaul, A.D. 481-751 by Yitzhak Hen
Call Number: DC64 .H46 1995
"The Growth of Liturgy and the church year" by Brian Spinks
Call Number: BR200 .C66 2007

In Cambridge history of Christianity, volume 2
Hymn introits for the liturgical year : the origin and early development of the Latin texts by Christoph Tietze
Call Number: ML3186 .T54 2005
Aspects of the liturgical year in Cappadocia (325-430) by Jill Burnett Comings
Call Number: BV30 .C597 2005
Origins of the Liturgical Year by Thomas J. Talley
Call Number: BV30 .T35 1991
The liturgical year by Abbot Guéranger ; Dom Laurence Shepherd (Translator)
Call Number: BX1970 .G85 1948

15 volumes
Le calendrier parisien à la fin du moyen âge : d'après le bréviaire et les livres d'heures by Paul Perdrizet
Call Number: BX1973 .P4

Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Die ältesten Kalendarien aus Monte Cassino by E. A. Loew
Call Number: PA2801 .Q4 Bd. 3, Hft. 3
Mittlalterliche Kirchenfeste und Kalendarien in Bayern by Anton Lechner
Call Number: BV30 .L43 1891

Saints Calendars

Butler's lives of the saints by Paul Burns (Editor)
Call Number: BX4654 .B8 1995
The Liber usualis : with introduction and rubrics in English by Benedictines of Solesmes (Editors)
Call Number: M2148.1.T8 L42 1938
Los santos del nuevo Misal hispano-mozárabe by Juan-Miguel Ferrer Grenesche
Call Number: BX4659.S8 F47 1995

Komputistische Sammelhandschrift

Vatikan, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 1449, f. 17v