On Easter, or the Paschal Cycle (Liber de Paschate)
Dionysius Exiguus · 525 · Before the division · public-domain-translation
7 claims in this dataset rest on this source.
People it attests
- Dionysius Exiguus 2 claims
Events it narrates
Glosses drawn from it
- Why there is no year zero chronology
What else rests on it
4 gloss subjects
The letter and Easter tables of 525 in which the Christian era was invented. Dionysius refused to go on numbering the years by Diocletian the persecutor — 'we do not wish to bind to our circles the memory of this impious man' — and counted from the incarnation instead, beginning at 1, with no zero and, as it turned out, a few years late. Michael Deckers' English translation (2006) is public domain; the Latin sits beside it.