Bede: The Reckoning of Time (Liverpool University Press - Translated Texts for Historians)

Title Page
Table of Contents
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	1. "Our little book about the fleeting
and wave-tossed course of time..."
	2. Computus as problem-based science and doctrina christiana
	3. A brief history of the Christian calendar before Bede
	4. Structure and content of The Reckoning of Time
	5. Bede’s sources
	6. Manuscripts, glosses, editions, and principles of translation
Bede: The Reckoning of Time
	Preface
	Table of Contents
	I. Technical preparation
		1. Calculating or speaking with the fingers
		2. Three ways of reckoning time
		3. The smallest intervals of time
		4. The reckoning of duodecimal fractions
	II. The Julian calendar
		5. The day
		6. The world’s first day
		7. Night
		8. The week
		9. The seventy prophetic weeks
		10. The week of the World-Ages
		11. The months
		12. The Roman months
		13. Kalends, nones and ides
		14. The Greek months
		15. The English months
		16. The signs of the twelve months
		17. The course of the Moon through the signs
		18. More on the course of the Moon: for those who are ignorant of the signs
		19. More on the same subject: for those who do not know how to calculate
		20. What the age of the Moon is on any given first day of the month
		21. What day of the week it is on the kalends
		22. A formula for any Moon or weekday
		23. For those who do not know how to calculate the age of the Moon
		24. The number of hours of moonlight
		25. When and why the Moon appears to be facing upwards, facing downwards, or standing upright
		26. Why the Moon, though situated beneath the Sun, sometimes appears to be above it
		27. On the size, or eclipse, of the Sun and Moon
		28. What the power of the Moon can do
		29. The harmony of the Moon and the sea
		30. Equinoxes and solstices
		31. The varying length of days and the different
position of the shadows
		32. Why the same days are unequal in length
		33. In what places the shadows or days are equal
		34. The five circles of the universe and the passage of the stars under the Earth
		35. The four seasons, elements and humours
		36. Natural years
		37. The different years of the ancients
		38. The calculation of the leap-year day
		39. Measuring the leap-year increment
		40. Why it is intercalated on the sixth kalends of March
		41. The Moon also has its quarter-day
	III. Anomalies of lunar reckoning
		42. The "leap of the Moon"
		43. Why the Moon sometimes appears older than its computed age
	IV. The Paschal table
		44. The nineteen-year cycle
		45. Embolismic and common years
		46. The ogdoas and the hendecas
		47. The years of the Lord’s Incarnation
		48. Indictions
		49. Formula for finding the indiction
		50. Lunar epacts
		51. How certain people err concerning the beginning of the first month
		52. Formula for finding the number of the lunar epacts
		53. Solar epacts
		54. Formula for finding the number of the solar epacts, and when leap year will fall
		55. The cycle of both epacts, and how to calculate them using the fingers
		56. The lunar cycle
		57. Formula based on the lunar cycle for finding
the age of the Moon on 1 January
		58. A formula to find what year of the lunar cycle or of the nineteen-year cycle it is
		59. The fourteenth Moon of Easter
		60. A formula for finding it
		61. Easter Sunday
		62. The Moon of that day
		63. The difference between the Pasch and the Feast of Unleavened Bread
		64. The allegorical interpretation of Easter
		65. The Great Paschal Cycle
	V. The world-chronicle
		66. The Six Ages of this world
	VI. Future time and the end of time
		67. The remainder of the Sixth Age
		68. Three opinions of the faithful as to when the Lord will come
		69. The time of Antichrist
		70. The Day of Judgement
		71. The Seventh Age, and the Eighth Age of the world to come
Commentary
Appendices
	1. Bede’s solar calendar
	2. Bede’s Paschal table
	3. Bede’s letters on computus
		3.1 Letter to Plegwin
		3.2 Letter to Helmwald
		3.3 Letter to Witched
	4. A note on the term computus
	5. Brief glossary of computistical terms
Bibliography
Index of Sources
General Index