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This project concerns itself with the controversial 12th century saint and abbot, Bernard of Clairvaux, so influential that his contemporaneity has been called ‘The Age of Bernard’. The project bases its method on Gadamer in an attempt to locate the man behind the legend. Working towards this, primary sources have been read, analyzed and contextualized with secondary sources in order to shed light on Bernard as he conducted himself and was seen by his contemporaries. The project concludes that while passing definite judgment on Bernard is impossible due to the limited availability of primary sources, it is possible to produce meaningful theories and interpretations of his letters, miracles and actions as both an abbot and a politician – he truly was a ‘difficult saint’.

Calendars are the products which belong to astronomic development and results of human chronically observing nature phenomena. In the 3rd semester project, we are interested in researching history of the calendars and this project focuses on the Chinese calendar and the Gregorian calendar which are two different kinds of calendar: Astronomical calendar and Arithmetical calendar. The project is through the different developing processes of two calendars in order to investigate the Chinese calendar and Gregorian calendar’s historical background, besides convert between each other by mathematic functions. In the project, it is possible to convert from a Chinese date to a R.D. day number (one kind of intergradation) and changing the R.D. number into Gregorian date by functions from literature studying. In addition, the project contains the perspective of some calendars in the future. #