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Gillian Adler and Paul Strohm, Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life. London: Reaktion Books, 2023, 247 pp., 51 color images.

by Adam Oberlin (Author)
3 Pages
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Journal: Mediaevistik Volume 36 Issue 1 Publication Year 2023 pp. 259 - 261

Summary

In eight chapters the authors have compiled a wide-ranging popular scholarly work of a particularly common type – informative and generally broad, occasionally strangely narrow, but primarily sufficient for the task of introducing readers to a foundational topic in Medieval Studies. The chapters discuss Varieties of Time, Measuring Time, Time and the Planets, Lives in Time, Timescapes: Narrative Shapes of Time, Allegories of Time, Ages of Humankind, and The End of Time. As one might guess from the title, the focus lies principally on Middle English with frequent recourse to Dante, occasional French literature, and various Latin sources such as the

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10.3726/med.2023.01.10
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Title: Gillian Adler and Paul Strohm, Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life. London: Reaktion Books, 2023, 247 pp., 51 color images.