Adler, Gillian,

Alle thyng hath tyme : time and medieval life / Gillian Adler and Paul Strohm. - 247 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm. - Medieval lives . - Medieval lives (Reaktion Books (Firm)) .

Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-236) and index.

Varieties of time -- Measuring time -- Time and the planets -- Lives in time -- Timescapes : narrative shapes of time -- Allegories of time -- Ages of humankind -- The end of 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."--

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Time--Psychological aspects--History--To 1500.
Time perception--History--To 1500.
Civilization, Medieval.


Europe--Social life and customs--To 1500.

contemporary TIME, NOT Timekeeping