The second international conference on the Science of Computus in Ireland and Europe, AD 400-1100

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The second international conference on the Science of Computus in Ireland and Europe, AD 400-1100

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Foundations of Irish Culture Project, based in the Moore Institute for the Humanities at the National University of Ireland, Galway
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Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway
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Galway, Ireland
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Ireland
Vom - Bis
18.07.2008 - 20.07.2008
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Warntjes, Immo

The FOUNDATIONS OF IRISH CULTURE PROJECT, based in the Moore Institute for the Humanities at the National University of Ireland, Galway, will host the 2nd International Conference on the Science of Computus on 18 – 20 July 2008. The Science of Computistics — the mathematics required to calculate the date of Easter, and related topics — straddles the fields of mathematics and astronomy, biblical interpretation and cosmology, empirical astronomical observation, and the perennial quest to understand the concepts of Time and Time-Reckoning. It is the fundamental mechanism for bridging the gap between the Humanities and Science in the Early Medieval world. The venue of the conference, and especially its thematic approach is directly connected to the fact that Ireland was at the forefront of scientific knowledge during the period c. AD 550-1100. In fact, the ‘Dark Ages’ were anything but dark in the fields of mathematics and astronomy. Irish scholars from the time of Columbanus († 615) led Europe in the field of computistical studies, and the contribution of Scotti peregrini (the Irish ‘Wandering Scholars’) to the development of both mathematical and astronomical understanding was acknowledged already in the Carolingian Age (c. AD 800). The purpose of this international conference, with speakers from Europe, North America, Australia and Asia, is therefore twofold: To examine
(1) the cross-over between the Humanities and Science in the period AD 500 - AD 1100 and
(2) the modern study of medieval mathematics & science.
Of particular importance are —
The Irish role in the development of Computistical Mathematics
The transmission of Late Antique Mathematical Knowledge in Europe
The Development of Astronomy in Early Medieval Europe
The Irish contribution to the development of the European Science Curriculum in the period AD 500 - AD 1100.

Programm

Friday, 18 July

18:00-19:30 CONFERENCE OPENING + launch of Dan McCarthy’s book,
The Irish Annals: their genesis, evolution & history (Four Courts).

Saturday, 19 July

9:30-11:00 — Session 1 (Chair: To be announced)

Wesley STEVENS (WINNIPEG): The vocabulary of computus
Leofranc HOLFORD-STREVENS (OXFORD): Church politics & computus: from Milan to the ends of the earth
David JUSTE (SYDNEY): Computus and divination in the Early Middle Ages

11:00-11:30 — Tea/Coffee

11:30-13:00 — Session 2 (Chair: To be announced)

David HOWLETT (OXFORD): Anatolius, Victorius, and Abbo
Faith WALLIS (MONTREAL): Computus and the body
Tessa MORRISON (NEWCASTLE): A medieval gesture-riddle

13:00-15:00 — Lunch-break

15:00-16:30 — Session 3 (Chair: To be announced)

Alden MOSSHAMMER (SAN DIEGO): The Computus of 455 & the Latercus of Augustalis
Luciana CUPPO-CSAKI (TRIESTE): Dionysius Exiguus, Felix Gillitanus, Cassiodorus & Bobbio
Brigitte ENGLISCH (PADERBORN): Ostern zwischen Arianismus und Katholizismus: zur Komputistik in den Reichen der Westgoten im 6. und 7. Jahrhundert

16:30-17:00 — Tea/Coffee

17:00-18:30 — Session 4 (Chair: To be announced)

Damian BRACKEN (CORK): Rome, the Isles, & the rhetoric of orthodoxy
Clare STANCLIFFE (DURHAM): The Easter controversy in Ireland
David PELTERET (FAZELEY): The issue of apostolic authority at the Synod of Whitby

21:00 — CONFERENCE DINNER

Sunday, 20 July

9:30-11:00 — Session 5 (Chair: To be announced)

Dan McCARTHY (DUBLIN): On the arrival of the ‘Latercus’ in Ireland
Masako OHASHI (NAGOYA): The Victorian table in Early England
Werner BERGMANN (BOCHUM): Dicuils Osterfestalgorithmus in seinem ‘Liber de Astronomia’

11:00-11:30 — Tea/Coffee

11:30-13:00 — Session 6 (Chair: To be announced)

Stephen McCLUSKEY (WEST VIRGINIA): Calendars, computus, and the orientation of churches
James PALMER (ST ANDREWS): The Easter crisis of AD 740 and London, BL, Cotton Caligula A XV
Immo WARNTJES (GREIFSWALD): The ‘Computus Cottonianus’ of AD 689 (Cotton Caligula A XV, fols 73r-80r): a computistical formulary written for Willibrord’s mission?

13:30 — CLOSE OF CONFERENCE

Kontakt

Dáibhí Ó Cróinín

History Department, National University of Ireland, Galway

daibhi.ocroinin@nuigalway.ie

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