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Computus — (Latin for computation ) is the calculation of the date of Easter in the Christian calendar. The name has been used for this procedure since the early Middle Ages, as it was one of the most important computations of the age. In principle, the… … Wikipedia
Golden numbers — The golden numbers (sometimes capitalized) are numbers assigned to each year in sequence to indicate the year s position in a 19 year Metonic cycle. They are used in the computus (the calculation of the date of Easter) and also in the Runic… … Wikipedia
Days of the week — The names of the days of the week in various world languages can be classified as either numerical or planetary; however in either case the names of one or more days may have been changed for religious or secular reasons. For instance Sunday is… … Wikipedia
Byrhtferth — ( c. 970 – c. 1020) was a priest and monk who lived at Ramsey Abbey. He had a deep impact on the intellectual life of later Anglo Saxon England and wrote many computistic, hagiographic, and historical works. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo… … Wikipedia
