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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture And, they never understood the sidereal year, either. yrs, tom ault On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:02:41 -0500 Frans van Liere <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and >culture > > I know that epacts have something to do with the excess of the days >of the > solar year over the lunar year, but that is the limit of my >knowledge. Perhaps > someone else can explain this better (perhaps Otfried?). > I learned about this ages ago, when I took diplomatics and we did >chronology. > But then we found that plenty of charters actually copied the epact >number off > other charters, without considering that the epact number for their >own date > might be different. Apparently, medieval scribes were not so clear >about what > an epact was, either ... :-) > > > > >Frans van Liere > Department of History, Calvin College > 1845 Knollcrest Circle SE > Grand Rapids, MI 49546-4402 > e-mail: [log in to unmask] > http://www.calvin.edu/academic/history/faculty/vanlieref/ > >>>> Ms B M Cook <[log in to unmask]> 2/26/2007 5:22 AM >>> > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and >culture > > There >> are six columns. >> >> 1) number of days in the month >> 2) golden numbers >> 3) ???? >> 4) dominical letters >> 5) ???? >> 6) "sign or symbol letters" > > Could Column 3 be the EPACT ? It is in my copy of the Book of >Common > Prayer. I expect someone else can explain EPACTS - I do have some >notes > somewhere but I think they relate to a 15 year astronomical cycle of >some > sort. > > Brenda. > > ********************************************************************** > To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME > to: [log in to unmask] > To send a message to the list, address it to: > [log in to unmask] > To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion > to: [log in to unmask] > In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write >to: > [log in to unmask] >For further information, visit our web site: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html > > ********************************************************************** > To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME > to: [log in to unmask] > To send a message to the list, address it to: > [log in to unmask] > To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion > to: [log in to unmask] > In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write >to: > [log in to unmask] >For further information, visit our web site: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html