The Easter computus and the origins of the Christian era / Alden A. Mosshammer.

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.

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Main Author: Mosshammer, Alden A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Series:Oxford early Christian studies.
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