medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
I thought that the inventor of "A.D." was Dionysius Exiguus, a couple of
centuries before Bede (?) I've been blaming him for years for the fact
that Jesus was probably born in the year 4 B.C.
Phyllis
>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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>> Bede (d. 735) The greatest Anglo-Saxon scholar, whose fame overshadowed
>> that of Aldhelm. Bede was a monk of Wearmouth-Jarrow, part of the
>> Northumbrian renaissance that fueled that of the Carolingians. He was a
>> prolific author, and as historian even cited his sources(!)
>
>Known as "the Father of English History". IIRC he was also a mathematician,
>a reformer of the calendar and the first person to date events from the
>Incarnation. i e he invented AD.
>
>Brenda M. C.
>
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