Alle Thyng Hath Tyme - Time and Medieval Life

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.

About the author

Gillian Adler is Assistant Professor of Literature and Esther Raushenbush Chair in Humanities at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. She is the author of Chaucer and the Ethics of Time (2022).Paul Strohm is Professor Emeritus of the Humanities at Columbia University, and divides his time between Oxford, UK, and Brooklyn, NY. His many books include The Poet’s Tale: Chaucer and the Year that Made The Canterbury Tales (2015).

Summary

A recreation of medieval people’s multifarious experience of time.

Product details

• Authors: Gillian Adler, Gillian Strohm Adler, Gillian Adler, Paul Strohm, Paul Strohm
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2023
• EAN: 9781789146790
• ISBN: 978-1-78914-679-0
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Medieval Lives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Medieval History, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Social and cultural history, European history: medieval period, middle ages