Fw: BCE/CE

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Spectors

To: cajani@uniroma1.it

Sent: Saturday, October 23, 1999 9:20 AM

Subject: Re: BCE/CE

I'm not sure, but I think BCE stands for "Before Common Era" and CD stands for Common Era. This was an attempt to make the dating based on something more universal than Christian theology, but by keeping BCE, it is close enough to BC that people would not be confused. Of course, while it is an attempt to make it more "universal" in one sense, it is still "English-language centered."

 

Alan Spector

----- Original Message -----

From: Luigi Cajani

To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK

Sent: Saturday, October 23, 1999 3:35 AM

Subject: BCE/CE

Dear Colleagues,
I'd like to know the origins and diffusion of the years denomination BCE and
CE instead of BC and AD, and possibly something about the discussion
concerning this choise.
Thank you very much

Luigi Cajani
Dipartimento di storia moderna e contemporanea
Facolta' di Lettere e Filosofia
Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza"
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00185 Roma
Italia
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