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.
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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"