Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life

Time and Medieval Life

Cover Art for 9781789146790, Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life by Adler, Gillian, Strohm, Paul
ISBN: 9781789146790
Publisher: REAKTION BOOKS
Published: 1 March, 2023
Format: Illustrated
Language: English
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A recreation of medieval people's experience of time.Alle Thyng Hath Tyme recreates medieval people's experience of time: as continuous and discontinuous, linear and cyclical, embracing Creation and Judgement, shrinking to 'atoms' or 'droplets' and extending to the silent spaces of eternity. They might measure 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 was making time-reckoning more precise. Negotiating these mixed and competing systems, medieval people gained a nuanced and expansive sense of time that rewards attention today.

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