Medievalists.net » Easter http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 03:31:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 A question of time or a question of theology: A study of the Easter controversy in the Insular Church http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/31/a-question-of-time-or-a-question-of-theology-a-study-of-the-easter-controversy-in-the-insular-church/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/31/a-question-of-time-or-a-question-of-theology-a-study-of-the-easter-controversy-in-the-insular-church/#comments Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:26:56 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=40177 To date scholarly research has approached this topic from a medieval historical perspective. It has, however, never been approached from a purely theological stance. Questions regarding the Insular 84-year cycle have occupied scholars over the past one hundred years or so. A review of the literature reveals an advance in understanding the techniques of the computus of the Insular church.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/31/a-question-of-time-or-a-question-of-theology-a-study-of-the-easter-controversy-in-the-insular-church/feed/ 0 The Byzantine communion chant for Easter in 14th-century manuscripts http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/09/the-byzantine-communion-chant-for-easter-in-14th-century-manuscripts/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/09/the-byzantine-communion-chant-for-easter-in-14th-century-manuscripts/#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:28:09 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=30927 It is only recently that the attention of musicologists has been directed to the study of Eastern church music as transmitted in 14th and 15th-century Byzantine manuscripts.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/09/the-byzantine-communion-chant-for-easter-in-14th-century-manuscripts/feed/ 0 Early medieval science: the evidence of Bede http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/10/early-medieval-science-the-evidence-of-bede/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/10/early-medieval-science-the-evidence-of-bede/#comments Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:52:39 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=30001 The Venerable Bede used observable proofs and mathematical calculations in his early 8th-century treatise De temporum ratione to teach the astronomical principles that inform the calculation of the date of Easter. This suggests that the seeds of the modern scientific method might be found before the 12th century in the educational practices of the early medieval monasteries.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/10/early-medieval-science-the-evidence-of-bede/feed/ 0 The Visitatio Sepulchri in the Latin Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem http://www.medievalists.net/2011/04/17/the-visitatio-sepulchri-in-the-latin-church-of-the-holy-sepulchre-in-jerusalem/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/04/17/the-visitatio-sepulchri-in-the-latin-church-of-the-holy-sepulchre-in-jerusalem/#comments Sun, 17 Apr 2011 19:02:58 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=19794 Holy Week commemorates the last days of Christ's earthly presence, from his entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday to his crucifixion and resurrection.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/04/17/the-visitatio-sepulchri-in-the-latin-church-of-the-holy-sepulchre-in-jerusalem/feed/ 0 The Late Birth of a Flat Earth http://www.medievalists.net/2010/10/30/the-late-birth-of-a-flat-earth/ http://www.medievalists.net/2010/10/30/the-late-birth-of-a-flat-earth/#comments Sun, 31 Oct 2010 02:15:01 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=11911 In his chronologies, Bede sought to order the events of Christian history, but the primary motive and purpose of his calculations centered on a different, and persistently vexatious, problem in ecclesiastical timing—the reckoning of Easter.

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