A saving science
Subtitle: capturing the heavens in Carolingian manuscripts
By: Eric M. Ramírez-Weaver
Contributors: Biblioteca Nacional (Spain)
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780271071268
Subjects: Learning and scholarship; Astronomy in art; Medieval Astronomy; Libri computi; Biblioteca Nacional (Spain); Carolingians; Medieval Illumination of books and manuscripts; Illustrations; Carolingian Illumination of books and manuscripts; History
Other titles: Capturing the heavens in Carolingian manuscripts
Description: "Focusing on the Handbook of 809 [also known as the Libri computi], A Saving Science explores how the liberal arts, and in particular astronomy, experienced a revival in the ninth-century court of Charlemagne. Documents the utility of the constellations for prelates who needed to fix the floating feast of Easter and reckon time."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-273) and index.
Table of contents: title: Unveiling the heavens over Carolingian skies. Illuminating science : creating the Handbook of 809 ; Drogo's copy of the Handbook of 809 : a simulacrum of celestial order; title: Representing the cosmos for Carolingian hearts and minds. Revealing astronomy : itinerant painters and shifting signs ; Restoring what was lost : astronomy and natural astrology in the Carolingian era.