Time : sense, space, structure / edited by Nancy van Deusen, Leonard Michael Koff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Van Deusen, Nancy (Nancy Elizabeth), editor.

Koff, Leonard Michael, editor.

Series:

Presenting the past (Leiden, Netherlands) ; Volume 5.

Presenting the Past : Central Issues in Medieval and Early Modern Studies Across the Disciplines, 1875-2799 ; Volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time--Philosophy.

Time.

Time--History.

Time perception.

Space and time.

Chronology.

Time--Social aspects.

Time--Political aspects.

Time in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (472 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, [Netherlands] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The essays in this volume explore the nature of time, our God-given medium of ascent, known, as Augustine puts it, through the ordered study of the “liberal disciplines that carry the mind to the divine ( disciplinae liberales intellectum efferunt ad divina )”: grammar and dialectic, for example, to promote thinking; geometry and astronomy to grasp the dimensions of our reality; music, an invisible substance like time itself, as an exemplary bridge to the unseen substance of thoughts, ideas, and the nature of God (theology). This ascending course of study rests on procedure, progress, and attainment — on before, following, and afterwards — whose goal is an ascending erudition that lets us finally contemplate, as Augustine says in De ordine , our invisible medium — time — within time itself: time is immaterial, but experienced as substantial. The essays here look at projects that chronicle time “from the beginning,” that clarify ideas of creation “in time” and “simultaneous times,” and the interrelationships between measured time and eternity, including “no-time.” Essays also examine time as revealed in social and political contexts, as told by clocks, as notated in music and embodied in memorializing stone. In the final essays of this volume, time is understood as the subject and medium of consciousness. As Adrian Bardon says, “time is not so much a ‘what’ as a ‘how’” : a solution to “organizing experience and modeling events.” Contributors are (in order within the volume) Jesse W. Torgerson, Ken A. Grant, Danielle B. Joyner, Nancy van Deusen, Peter Casarella, Aaron Canty, Jordan Kirk, Vera von der Osten-Sacken, Gerhard Jaritz, Jason Aleksander, Sara E. Melzer, Mark Howard, Andrew Eschelbacher, Hans J. Rindisbacher, James F. Knapp, Peggy A. Knapp, Raymond Knapp, Michael Cole, Ike Kamphof and Leonard Michael Koff.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Nancy van Deusen and Leonard Michael Koff

Introduction / Nancy van Deusen and Leonard Michael Koff

Time and Again: Early Medieval Chronography and the Recurring Holy First-Created Day of George Synkellos / Jesse W. Torgerson

Registering Rome: The Eternal City Through the Eyes of Pope Gregory vii / Ken A. Grant

Building Block of Times, Knowledge and Wisdom in the Hortus deliciarum / Danielle B. Joyner

Simultaneous Times: Synderesis and its Musical Exemplification / Nancy van Deusen

Trinity, Simultaneity, and the Music of Creation in St. Bonaventure / Peter Casarella

Hugh of St. Cher and Thomas Aquinas: Time and the Interpretation of the Psalms / Aaron Canty

Walter Burley on the Time of Unknowing / Jordan Kirk

Theological and Social Time: The Case of the Beguines / Vera von der Osten-Sacken

Medieval Mechanical Clocks / Gerhard Jaritz

Providence, Temporal Authority, and the Illustrious Vernacular in Dante’s Political Philosophy / Jason Aleksander

Time, Myth and the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns: Racine and Fontenelle / Sara E. Melzer

Time and Space as Manipulated Materials in Rameau’s Les Cyclopes / Mark Howard

Resisting Death’s Finality: Jules Dalou’s Blanqui Tomb and the Dialectics of Memorialization / Andrew Eschelbacher

End of Story: Closed Form and Open Time / Hans J. Rindisbacher

Time and the Self in Virginia Woolf and Richard Powers / James F. Knapp and Peggy A. Knapp

Temporality and Control in Sondheim’s Middle Period: From Company to Sunday in the Park with George / Raymond Knapp

Remembering the Future / Michael Cole

“Real Time”. On the Whereabouts of Time in New Media: The Case of Webcams / Ike Kamphof

No-Time in Non-Places / Leonard Michael Koff

Index / Nancy van Deusen and Leonard Michael Koff.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-31231-5

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004312319 DOI