Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life by Adler, Gillian

Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781789146790)

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Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life by Adler, Gillian

Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life

$22.50
Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life by Adler, Gillian

Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life

$22.50
Format: Hardcover
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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.


Author: Gillian Adler, Paul Strohm
ISBN-10: 1789146798
ISBN-13: 9781789146790
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Language: English
Published: 04/21/2023
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 8.58h x 5.75w x 0.87d

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Choice 01/01/2024
By Gillian Adler
By Gillian Adler
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Gillian Adler is assistant professor of literature and the Esther Raushenbush Chair in Humanities at Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of Chaucer and the Ethics of Time. Paul Strohm is professor emeritus of the humanities at Columbia University. His many books include The Poet's Tale: Chaucer and the Year that Made The Canterbury Tales.

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