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The Easter computus and the origins of the Christian era

This study of early Christian methods for calculating the phases of the moon and the date for Easter Sunday offers a new explanation of how the system of numbering the years AD (Anni Domini, Years of the Lord) originated
eBook, English, 2008
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008
chronologies (lists)
1 online resource (xi, 474 pages)
9780191562365, 019156236X
318675698
List of Tables; Abbreviations; PART I. CONTEXTS; PART II. THE EASTER TABLES OF DIONYSIUS EXIGUUS; PART III. PASCHAL CALCULATIONS IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY; PART IV. THE ORIGIN OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA; References; Index