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Bede: On the Nature of Things and on Times

Contributor(s): Bede (Author), Kendall, Calvin B (Commentaries by), Kendall, Calvin B (Translator), Wallis, Faith (Commentaries by), Wallis, Faith (Translator)

ISBN: 9781846314957

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

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Pub Date: October 14, 2010

Dewey: 523

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Annotated, Bibliography

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.80" H x 8.30" L x 6.00" W ( 0.83 lbs) 224 pages

BISAC Categories:

History | Europe | Medieval | Science | Space Science | Astronomy

Series: Translated Texts for Historians

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Description: Translated here for the first time into English, Bede's On the Nature of Things and On Times bring together cosmology and time-reckoning to form a unified science of computus ---- the basis for the scientific education of the Middle Ages.

Brief description:

Calvin B. Kendall is Emeritus Professor of English, University of Minnesota. His many books include The Allegory of the Church: Romanesque Portals and Their Verse Inscriptions (University of Toronto Press 1998) and (with Faith Wallis) Bede: On the Nature of Things and On Times (Liverpool University Press 2010).

Review Quotes: ... you will find much here that is new and interesting, to make this a valuable addition to your library.-- "The British Journal for the History of Science, Volume 45/1"

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