The Calendar
In Our Time: Science
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The Importance of Dates in the Middle Ages
The birth of Christ was obviously a much, much better date for the Christian church by then. Bede recognized that the equinox was slipping backwards against the calendar. He was one of the first people to say we're going to have to do something about this calendar because we are slipping out of line with the stars. So there's this artificial and the natural, almost in competition all the time, certainly of, often in contradiction aren't they? Did they realize that at the time?
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