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Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life (Medieval Lives)

By Paul Strohm , Gillian Adler

Book information

Publisher
Reaktion Books
Year
2023
ISBN
1789146798, 9781789146790
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
29 MB (30871335 bytes)
Pages
248\248
Time added
2023-10-30 01:04:18

Description

An insightful account of how medieval people experienced time. Alle Thyng Hath Tyme recreates medieval people’s experience of time as continuous, discontinuous, linear, and cyclical—from creation through judgment and into eternity. Medieval people measured time by natural phenomena such as sunrise and sunset, the motion of the stars, or the progress of the seasons, even as the late-medieval invention of the mechanical clock made time-reckoning more precise. Negotiating these mixed and competing systems, Gillian Adler and Paul Strohm show how medieval people gained a nuanced and expansive sense of time that rewards attention today.

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