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Record Nr.

UNINA9910861065403321

Autore

Adler Gillian

Titolo

Alle thyng hath tyme : time and medieval life / / Gillian Adler and Paul Strohm

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Reaktion Books, Limited, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

9781789147223

1-78914-722-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Medieval lives series

Soggetti

Time - Psychological aspects - History - To 1500

Time perception - History - To 1500

Civilization, Medieval

Europe social life and customs To 1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Varieties of time -- Measuring time -- Time and the planets -- Lives in time -- Timescapes: narrative shapes of time -- Allegories of time -- Ages of humankind -- The end of time.

Sommario/riassunto

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.