Bede and Time: Computus, Theology and History in the Early Medieval World

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Introduction: Computus, contexts and controversies
	Bede and the Insular Easter Controversy
	Bede and time: Historiography and outline of the book
1 De temporibus
	Transmission and terminology of Bede's works on time
	Insular computistica
	Structure and content of computistical textbooks
	De temporibus and Insular computus tradition
	Why did Bede write De temporibus?
2 The De temporibus chronicle
	Structure of the De temporibus chronicle
	Purpose of the De temporibus chronicle
	Terminology and titles for Bede's chronicles
3 Bede's Anno Mundi chronology and the 'Chronicle of 703'
	Chronography in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages
	Chronology in the Insular World
	Why did Bede use Vulgate chronology?
	Conclusion
4 Bede's chronicles: Contents and sources
	First to fifth world ages
	Sixth world age
	Conclusion
5 Nativity and Incarnation in Bede's theology of time
	Baptism, Passion and Nativity in world chronicle tradition
	Bede and counting time from the coming of Christ
	Nativity and Incarnation in Bede's thought
	Nativity and Incarnation in early medieval theology
6 Bede, Dionysius Exiguus and Anno Domini chronology
	Annus Domini prior to the seventh century
	Anglo-Saxon England
	Willibrord and Francia
	Bede and Annus Domini in the Historica Ecclesiastica
Afterword
Appendix 1: Table of chapter headings in Bede's De temporibus and his principal sources
Appendix 2: Table of key chronological events in the Chronicle of Eusebius and Jerome
Appendix 3: Chronological comparison of Bede's chronicles
Appendix 4: Popes in the Liber Pontificalis, De temporibus and De temporum ratione
Appendix 5: Incarnation dating clauses in the Historia ecclesiastica
Appendix 6: Comparison of Bede's AD years in the Historia ecclesiastica with AD years calculated from his chronicles
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Index