Time in the Medieval World

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.

List of contents

Introduction - Christopher Humphrey
Year-Dates in the Early Middle Ages - Deborah Deliyannis
Living within Sight of the End - Robert Markus
Death, Memory and Time: A Consideration of the Mortuary Practices at Sutton Hoo - Howard Williams
Lawyers' Time in England in the Later Middle Ages - Paul Brand
Time and Urban Culture in Late Medieval England - Christopher Humphrey
In Search of Lost Time: Missing Days in Sir Cleges and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Ad Putter
Meditations on the 'Historical Present' and 'Collective Memory' in Chaucer and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Mary J Carruthers
The Sense of Anachronism from Petrarch to Poussin - Peter Burke

About the author

Chris Humphrey, W.M. Ormrod

Product details

• Authors: Chris Humphrey
• Assisted by: Chris Humphrey (Editor), W M Ormrod (Editor), W. M. Ormrod (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.12.2001
• EAN: 9781903153086
• ISBN: 978-1-903153-08-6
• No. of pages: 186
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 576 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Medieval, History - General History