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The Medieval Church · c. 1073–1082
The Chronicle
Marianus Scotus · 1028–1082
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What it is
A world chronicle by an Irish monk enclosed as a recluse in Germany, arguing that the received date of the incarnation was twenty-two years out.
Why it lasted
A serious attempt to correct the Christian era on astronomical grounds, and evidence of Irish scholars embedded across eleventh-century Germany.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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