Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	1330
Title	Intellectual and Political Borders of Time Reckoning in Early Medieval Europe
Date/Time	Wednesday 6 July 2022: 16.30-18.00
Sponsor	Irish Research Council Project 'The Irish Foundation of Carolingian Europe (IFCE): The Case of Calendrical Science (Computus)'
Organiser	Christian G. Schweizer, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin
Moderator/Chair	Immo Warntjes, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin
Paper 1330-a	The Easter Controversy in Northumbria after the Synod of Whitby, 664-672 (Language: English) Mathew T. A. Clear, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin Index Terms: Ecclesiastical History; Politics and Diplomacy; Science
Paper 1330-b	Borders in Dicuil's De cursu solis lunaeque (Language: English) Christian G. Schweizer, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin Index Terms: Education; Language and Literature - Latin; Learning (The Classical Inheritance); Science
Paper 1330-c	Beyond Borders: Object-Oriented Cataloguing and the Influence of Peripheral Intellectual Ideas on the Carolingian Centre (Language: English) Judith ter Horst, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin Index Terms: Computing in Medieval Studies; Manuscripts and Palaeography; Science
Abstract	This session analyses various intellectual and political borders related to early medieval time reckoning. Different reckonings of Easter became a political and religious issue during the Easter Controversy. Regional councils attempting to unify the reckoning, like at Whitby, had limited success: the controversy was revived by increasing Papal influence. At the Carolingian court, Alcuin and Dicuil mentioned disagreements among Anglian and Irish scholars. Concurrently, computists crossed disciplinary boundaries towards the artes liberales, and ideas from the periphery crossed borders through intellectual networks. Modern scholars tackle these topics by delineating individual ideas within manuscripts, and by working in a borderland of disciplines themselves.