Time in the Medieval World

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Chris Humphrey, W. M. Ormrod
Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2001 - History - 176 pages
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.

 

Contents

Chapter
3
vi
18
2
25
A Consideration of the Mortuary Practices
35
The location of the Sutton Hoo cemetery
49
Plan of the male adult inhumation and horse burial
60
Execution graves around mound 5 at Sutton
68
5
74
Chapter 5
106
6
108
Francis Place etching of the west front of York Minster
112
7
121
The Sense of Anachronism from Petrarch to Poussin
159
Index
175
Copyright

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About the author (2001)

W M Ormrod is Professor of Medieval History at the University of York. The late W. MARK ORMROD was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of York; he published extensively on later medieval history.

Bibliographic information

TitleTime in the Medieval World
EditorsChris Humphrey, W. M. Ormrod
Editionillustrated
PublisherBoydell & Brewer Ltd, 2001
ISBN1903153085, 9781903153086
Length176 pages
Subjects ›  › 

History / Europe / Medieval
History / Social History
Reference / General
Science / Time
Social Science / Customs & Traditions
  
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