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Scandalous Error
Author: C. Philipp E. Nothaft
language: en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: 2018-02-09
The Gregorian calendar reform of 1582, which provided the basis for the civil and Western ecclesiastical calendars still in use today, has often been seen as a triumph of early modern scientific culture or an expression of papal ambition in the wake of the Counter-Reformation. Much less attention has been paid to reform's intellectual roots in the European Middle Ages, when the reckoning of time by means of calendrical cycles was a topic of central importance to learned culture, as impressively documented by the survival of relevant texts and tables in thousands of manuscripts copied before 1500. For centuries prior to the Gregorian reform, astronomers, mathematicians, theologians, and even Church councils had been debating the necessity of improving or emending the existing ecclesiastical calendar, which throughout the Middle Ages kept losing touch with the astronomical phenomena at an alarming pace. Scandalous Error is the first comprehensive study of the medieval literature devoted to the calendar problem and its cultural and scientific contexts. It examines how the importance of ordering liturgical time by means of a calendar that comprised both solar and lunar components posed a technical-astronomical problem to medieval society and details the often sophisticated ways in which computists and churchmen reacted to this challenge. By drawing attention to the numerous connecting paths that existed between calendars and mathematical astronomy between the Fall of Rome and the end of the fifteenth century, the volume offers substantial new insights on the place of exact science in medieval culture.
The Scandal of False Teaching
Author: James Durham
language: en
Publisher: Reformation Heritage Books
Release Date: 2023-11-13
In his letter to the churches in Revelation, Jesus rebukes Pergamum for tolerating dangerous errors. In The Scandal of False Teaching, James Durham uncovers the danger of false teaching and the ways that it threatens the body. With care and precision, Durham helps us identify the seriousness of doctrinal errors and understand how to correct them. Ministers and lay church members will learn how to work together to defend Christ’s church against wolves in the flock. Now presented in modern English with discussion questions, Durham’s classic treatment on doctrinal error can be used to edify a new generation.
Studies in Manuscript Illumination, 1200-1400
The author is Helen Gould Sheppard Professor of Art History at New York University , Institute of Fine Arts, and a leading authority on English medieval manuscript illumination. This volume bring together twenty-six of Professor Sandler's studies, focusing on illustrated manuscripts produced in England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, particularly on the illuminated psalters. The marginal illustrations in these psalters are a topic of particular interest, and there are a number of iconographic studies derived from this material. A separate section deals with the illustrated encyclopedias of the period, particularly the Omne bonum.