Take that, astrolabe
Tom Johnson: Medieval Time, 19 October 2023
Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life
by Gillian Adler and Paul Strohm.
Reaktion, 247 pp., £20, March,978 1 78914 679 0 Show More
by Gillian Adler and Paul Strohm.
Reaktion, 247 pp., £20, March,
“... of joint. ‘What is time?’ St Augustine wondered. ‘Provided that no one asks me, I know.’ Gillian Adler and Paul Strohm explore the many answers proposed by writers, artists and visionaries in the Middle Ages. ‘Medieval people’, they write, were ‘more keenly aware of simultaneous and contending temporalities than we are, and more skilled at ... ”