Scientific and popular calendars in medieval Jewish sources - Nadia Vidro

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'Scientific and popular calendars in medieval Jewish sources' - Dr Nadia Vidro, UCL. Part of the Workshop 'Science versus popular culture in medieval Jewish society' on 9 November 2015, organised by the ERC Calendars Project at the Department of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, UCL. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewish/research/research-pro/calendars-antiquity-middle-ages Dr Nadia Vidro’s talk looks at the relationship between scientific calendar monographs and the actual calendars tables found in medieval Jewish manuscripts and tries to understand why calendar treatises had limited influence on the spread of popular calendars incompatible with the standard calculation. Image: The 247-year cycle © Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut.I.08

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