Time in the Medieval World
Published on 6. December 2001
Book
Hardback
186 pages
978-1-903153-08-6 (ISBN)
Description
A look at the competing notions of time in the middle ages, from the spiritual - death, the Last Judgement - to the practical - lawyers' calculations, clocks and calendars.
By exploring some of the more important senses of time which were in circulation in the medieval world, scholars from a wide range of disciplines trace competing definitions and modes of temporality in the middle ages, explainingtheir influence upon life and culture. The issues explored include anachronism as a feature in earlier senses of time, perceptions of death and of the Last Judgement, time in literary narratives and in music, constructions of timeas used in the professions, and original work on the particular systems and technologies which were used for the keeping of time, such as clocks and calendars.
Contributors: PAUL BRAND, PETER BURKE, MARY J. CARRUTHERS, DEBORAH DELIYANNIS, CHRISTOPHER HUMPHREY, ROBERT MARKUS, AD PUTTER, HOWARD WILLIAMS.
By exploring some of the more important senses of time which were in circulation in the medieval world, scholars from a wide range of disciplines trace competing definitions and modes of temporality in the middle ages, explainingtheir influence upon life and culture. The issues explored include anachronism as a feature in earlier senses of time, perceptions of death and of the Last Judgement, time in literary narratives and in music, constructions of timeas used in the professions, and original work on the particular systems and technologies which were used for the keeping of time, such as clocks and calendars.
Contributors: PAUL BRAND, PETER BURKE, MARY J. CARRUTHERS, DEBORAH DELIYANNIS, CHRISTOPHER HUMPHREY, ROBERT MARKUS, AD PUTTER, HOWARD WILLIAMS.
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Language
English
Place of publication
York
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
2 b/w, 6 line illus.
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
452 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-903153-08-6 (9781903153086)
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Persons
The late W. MARK ORMROD was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of York; he published extensively on later medieval history. Ad Putter is Professor of Medieval English at the University of Bristol, UK, co-director of Bristol's Centre for Medieval Studies, and Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author and editor of numerous books, with a particular interest in Medieval Romance texts and the works of the Gawain poet. He is currently leading a research project on the literary heritage of Anglo-Dutch relations. MARY CARRUTHERS is Remarque Professor Emeritus of Literature, New York University and Quondam Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford. A world-renowned scholar, she has published numerous works on medieval ideas of the mind.
Content
Introduction - Christopher Humphrey
Year-Dates in the Early Middle Ages - Deborah Deliyannis
Living within Sight of the End - Robert Markus
Death, Memory and Time: A Consideration of the Mortuary Practices at Sutton Hoo - Howard Williams
Lawyers' Time in England in the Later Middle Ages - Paul Brand
Time and Urban Culture in Late Medieval England - Christopher Humphrey
In Search of Lost Time: Missing Days in Sir Cleges and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Ad Putter
Meditations on the 'Historical Present' and 'Collective Memory' in Chaucer and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Mary J Carruthers
The Sense of Anachronism from Petrarch to Poussin - Peter Burke
Year-Dates in the Early Middle Ages - Deborah Deliyannis
Living within Sight of the End - Robert Markus
Death, Memory and Time: A Consideration of the Mortuary Practices at Sutton Hoo - Howard Williams
Lawyers' Time in England in the Later Middle Ages - Paul Brand
Time and Urban Culture in Late Medieval England - Christopher Humphrey
In Search of Lost Time: Missing Days in Sir Cleges and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Ad Putter
Meditations on the 'Historical Present' and 'Collective Memory' in Chaucer and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Mary J Carruthers
The Sense of Anachronism from Petrarch to Poussin - Peter Burke