Time in the Medieval World [Hardcover]

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, explaining their 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 time as 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.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.Introduction - Christopher HumphreyYear-Dates in the Early Middle Ages - Deborah DeliyannisLiving within Sight of the End - Robert MarkusDeath, Memory and Time: A Consideration of the Mortuary Practices at Sutton Hoo - Howard WilliamsLawyers' Time in England in the Later Middle Ages - Paul BrandTime and Urban Culture in Late Medieval England - Christopher HumphreyIn Search of Lost Time: Missing Days in Sir Cleges and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Ad PutterMeditations on the 'Historical Present' and 'Collective Memory' in Chaucer and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Mary J CarruthersThe Sense of Anachronism from Petrarch to Poussin - Peter Burke