Alle Thyng Hath Tyme

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Alle Thyng Hath Tyme

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Author: Gillian Adler

Type: Hardback

ISBN: 9781789146790

Date: 1st March, 2023

Publisher: Reaktion Books

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  3. History and Archaeology
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Alle Thyng Hath Tyme recreates medieval people's experience of time: as continuous and discontinuous, linear and cyclical, embracing Creation and Judgement, shrinking to 'atoms' or 'droplets' and extending to the silent spaces of eternity. They might measure 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 was making time-reckoning more precise. Negotiating these mixed and competing systems, medieval people gained a nuanced and expansive sense of time that rewards attention today.

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