Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time And Medieval Life (Medieval Lives) - 9781789146790

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
• | Publisher: Reaktion Books
• | Publication Date: Apr 21, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 248 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1789146798
• | ISBN-13: 9781789146790