DIONYSIUS EXIGUUS

dīənĭshˈēəs ĕksĭgˈyooəs, d. c.545, Roman monk, chronologist, and scholar, a transmitter of Greek thought to the Middle Ages. He made collections of 5th-century papal decretals and the canons of the early church councils. Dionysius, in an attempt to improve the reckoning of the date of Easter, was the first (525) to use our present system of reckoning a date from the time of the birth of Jesus (see era).

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books on: Dionysius Exiguus  - 171 results

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The Letters of Gerbert, with His Papal Privileges as Sylvester II
Book by Harriet Pratt Lattin, Pope Sylvester II; Columbia University Press, 1961
Subjects: Catholic Church--France, France--Church History--987-1515
...PL L, 475B, 515A. 60. Dionysius Exiguus Codex canonum ecclesiasticorum...Jerome was only a priest. 64. Dionysius Exiguus Codex canonum ecclesiasticorum...CLXXXV, PL XXXIII, 794A. 66. Dionysius Exiguus Codex canonum ecclesiasticorum...
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Millennium III, Century XXI: A Retrospective on the Future
Book by Peter N. Stearns; Westview Press, 1998
Subjects: Millennium, Twenty-First Century--Forecasts
...of Our Lord Jesus Christ." Dionysius Exiguus attempted to figure out the...new tally after his birth. Dionysius Exiguuss figures were disputed...that were still stuck with, as Dionysius Exiguus had tried to figure the date...
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The Oxford Companion to the Year
Book by Bonnie Blackburn, Leofranc Holford-Strevens; Oxford University Press, 1999
Subjects: Calendar, Calendars--History
...importance that John ascribes to the Jewish holy days in Jesus life. THE CHRISTIAN ERA THE TABLE OF DIONYSIUS EXIGUUS In 525 the monk Dionysius Exiguus drew up, at the behest of papal functionaries dissatisfied with the Easter tables of Victorius...
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Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Book by Bertram Colgrave, R. A. B. Mynors, St. Bede; Clarendon Press, 1969
Subjects: Church History--Middle Ages, 600-1500, Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, England--Church History--449-1066
...nineteen years each. After this Dionysius Exiguus 3 added as many more nineteen...and p. 20, n. 1 . The title Exiguus was simply an expression of...same length as the tables of Dionysius Exiguus. 5 Job. 1:20. 6 Gen. 41...
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The Muratorian Fragment and the Development of the Canon
Book by Geoffrey Mark Hahneman; Oxford University, 1992
Subjects: Bible--N.T--Canon, Muratorian Fragment
...and decretals, namely that of Dionysius Exiguus, began with those of Siricius...successor of Damasus. The fact that Dionysius began at that particular date...suppositious Roman synod in 494. 59 Dionysius Exiguus, for instance, did not mention...
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journal articles on: Dionysius Exiguus  - 7 results

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American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: Vol. 82, No. 4, Fall 2008
Journal article; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 62, 2009
Subjects: Anonyms and pseudonyms--Discovery and exploration, Dionysius Exiguus--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Pseudonyms--Discovery and exploration, Theologians--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Theology--Analysis
...Pseudonymity and Philosophical Program in Dionysius the Areopagite, CHRISTIAN SCHAFER The key to understanding Dionysius is the methodical acceptance of the...pagan wisdom and Christian doctrine. Dionysius method consists of the presentation...
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The Mermedonian Computus
Journal article by Hilary E. Fox; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 89, 2010
Subjects: Anglo-Saxon language--Analysis
...of Alexandria, Cyril, and Dionysius Exiguus, who provided the Roman church...against the calculations of Dionysius Exiguus, whose work had been accepted...Abbo of Fleury criticized Dionysius Exiguus for not observing the fides...
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Dreams and Divination in Early Medieval Canonical and Narrative Sources: the Question of Clerical Control
Journal article by Isabel Moreira; The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 89, 2003
Subjects: Biographies, Christianity, Clergy, Culture, Dreams, Middle Ages
...Ancyra held in A.D. 314.25 The Greek council was known to the Latin West in the sixth-century translation of Dionysius Exiguus, among others.26 In neither its Greek form nor its Dionysian translation did the Council of Ancyra make any reference...
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Church Law and Church Order in Rome and Byzantium: a Comparative Study
Journal article by James A. Brundage; The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 89, 2003
Subjects: Canon law, Comparative studies, Gallagher, Clarence, Nonfiction, Religious law
...examination of a pair of sixth-century writers, Dionysius Exiguus, the compiler of a famous collection of canonical...collections in the West. He then examines the work of Dionysius Eastern counterpart, John Scholastikos, Patriarch...
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The Sky Is Falling (or Is It?): International Contracts and the Y2K Problem
Journal article by Mark B. Baker; Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 32, 1999
Subjects: Commercial treaties--Interpretation and construction, Contracts (International law)--Planning, Impossibility of performance--Analysis, Uniform Commercial Code--U.C.C. 2-615, Year 2000 transition (Computers)--Management
...more careful calculations, the millennium began a few years ago. A large part of the misunderstanding stems from Dionysius Exiguus -- Latin for Dennis the Short -- a 6th century monk who should be thought of as the original millennium bug. Dennis...
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magazine articles on: Dionysius Exiguus  - 15 results

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Zero
Magazine article by Dick Teresi; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 280, July 1997
Subjects: Calendars--Public opinion, Millennium--Public opinion
...papal archive. The monk was Dionysius Exiguus (roughly translated, "Denny...working under Pope John I, Dionysius was translating from Greek into...most difficult to calculate. Dionysius was using the Alexandrian method...
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Zero: The Debate over When the New Millennium Begins Is by Now a Familiar One
Magazine article by Dick Teresi; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 280, July 1997
Subjects: Calendars, Chronology, Numeration systems
...papal archive. The monk was Dionysius Exiguus (roughly translated, "Denny...working under Pope John I, Dionysius was translating from Greek into...most difficult to calculate. Dionysius was using the Alexandrian method...
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The First Day of the Rest of Our Life
Magazine article by Stephen Jay Gould; Natural History, Vol. 109, April 2000
Subjects: Calendars, Christianity, History, Millennium
...consideration. You see, poor Dionysius Exiguus (Dennis the Short), the sixth...Again, we must recognize Dionysius Exiguus as the culprit, although we...in Western mathematics when Dionysius performed his calendrical duties...
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Dousing Diminutive Dennis's Debate
Magazine article; Natural History, Vol. 103, April 1994
Subjects: Time
...a sixth-century monk named Dionysius Exiguus, or (literally) Dennis the...secular and sacred allegiances, Dionysius then divided time again at Christs...city," that is, of Rome). Dionysius then restarted time just a few...
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Quizzical
Magazine article; Geographical, Vol. 73, May 2001
...of the Christian Era was invented by a man called Dionysius Exiguus (c.500 to 550AD) in about 525, at the request...conditae -- in the year of the foundation of Rome). Dionysius Exiguus, a Scythian monk or abbot who lived in Italy, declared...
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newspaper articles on: Dionysius Exiguus  - 15 results

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Questions on When We Begin the Next Millennium
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 24, 1999
...set up by a Scythian monk named Dionysius Exiguus in the year he called 532. He...the 2000th year by this count. Exiguus was measuring time passed. Passed...millennium. Add the fact that Exiguus figures back to the conception...
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Our Ancestors Celebrated 1000AD by Building Great Cathedrals All across Europe. for 2000AD We Got the Dome. Now the BBC Say It's Not the Year of Our Lord, It's Common Era. Why Do We Let It Happen?
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), October 2, 2011
Subjects: Anglicanism, Church buildings, Churches
...Byline: GEORGE CAREY FORMER ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY DIONYSIUS EXIGUUS would be dumbfounded at the attempts by the BBC to...silly and yet potentially harmful advice? Even if Dionysius Exiguus and the Venerable Bede are not turning in their graves...
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Inside the Beltway
Newspaper article by John Mccaslin; The Washington Times, December 21, 1999
...Dogg. NAILING EASTER "While Dionysius did miscalculate the year of...zero," writes John Sloan of Dionysius Exiguus, the monk who centuries ago...point, not a dimension. It isnt Dionysius fault there is no year zero...
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Inside the Beltway
Newspaper article by John Mccaslin; The Washington Times, December 20, 1999
Subjects: Jesus Christ, Republican National Committee
...certain monk and mathematician - Dionysius Exiguus, literally "Dennis the Short...possible, in this scenario). Dionysius, who lived in the sixth century...Gospel of Luke his instrument, Dionysius tried his best to calculate when...
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Does God Have a Plan for 2000?
Newspaper article by Larry Witham; The Washington Times, January 3, 1998
...Meanwhile, the sixth-century monk Dionysius Exiguus had drawn up the official church...not at zero. Thus, using the Dionysius logic, the Ussher calculation...has the modern world followed Dionysius lead by including 10 in a decade...
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encyclopedia articles on: Dionysius Exiguus  - 3 results

 
 
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Dionysius Exiguus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DIONYSIUS EXIGUUS di nish e s eksig yoo s, d. c.545, Roman monk, chronologist...century papal decretals and the canons of the early church councils. Dionysius, in an attempt to improve the reckoning of the date of Easter, was...
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Era
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...times, there may be anomalies in dating. Thus, the beginning of the Christian era, originally fixed probably by Dionysius Exiguus , was set a little too late. Therefore the actual birth of Jesus must be dated a little earlier, probably in 4...
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Ostrogoths
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Lombards. Under the Ostrogothic kings, the culture of late antiquity was revived by Boethius and Cassiodorus; Dionysius Exiguus compiled church law; and Saint Benedict laid the basis of Western monasticism. Roman law and institutions were...


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