Research Guides: Medieval Time: Understandings of Time

Overview

Intended as an overview of available secondary works on understandings of time. Grouped into the following categories:

General Understandings
Astronomical
Labors of the Months
Literary
Religious
Spatial

Labors of the Months

The Medieval Calendar Year by Bridget Ann Henisch
Call Number: CE57 .H46 1999
The Brussels Horloge de Sapience: iconography and text of Brussels, Bibliothèque royale, MS. 111 by Peter Rolfe Monks
Call Number: Z105.5.B53 M65 1990
Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Time in the Medieval World: occupations of the months and signs of the zodiac in the Index of Christian Art by Colum Hourihane (Editor)
Call Number: N8253.T5 T55 2007
The calendar pages of medieval service books : an introductory note for art historians by F. P. Pickering
Call Number: CE55 .P5 1980
Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Labors of the Months in Antique and Medieval Art to the End of the 12th Century by James C. Webster
Call Number: N7745.M6 W4 1970
ISBN: 0404507042
"Cosmology and the Labors of the Months at Piacenza: The Crypt Mosaic at San Savino" by Charles E. Nicklies
Gesta 34, no. 2 (1995):108-125
"Labeur and paresse: ideological representations of medieval peasant labor" by Jonathan Alexander
Art Bulletin 72 (September 1990): 436-452
Simon Bening and the Development of Landscape in Flemish Calendar Illumination by T. Kren
The Labors of the Months and the Signs of the Zodiac in Twelfth-century French facades by M.J. Panadero

Religious Aspects

De Temporum Ratione by Nadja Germann
Call Number: CE57 .G47 2006
Quadrivium und Gotteserkenntnis am Beispiel Abbos von Fleury und Hermanns von Reichenau
Thomas Bradwardine: a view of time and a vision of eternity in fourteenth-century thought by Edith W. Dolnikowski
Call Number: B765.B774 D65 1995
The Sabbath World: glimpses of a different order of time by Judith Shulevitz
Call Number: BM685 .S478 2010
In synchrony with the heavens : studies in astronomical timekeeping and instrumentation in medieval Islamic civilization by David A. King
Call Number: QB23 .K53 2004
God, Time, and Knowledge by William Hasker
Call Number: BT131 .H18 1989
Once Out of Nature: Augustine on time and the body by Andrea Nightingale
Call Number: BR65.A9 N54 2011
Publication Date: 2011-05-30

Literary

Constructions of Time in the Late Middle Ages by Carol Poster (Editor); Richard J. Utz (Editor)
Call Number: PN682.T55 C661 1997
Imaginings of Time in Lydgate and Hoccleve's Verse by Karen Elaine Smyth
ISBN: 9781409406310
Publication Date: 2011-03-01
Medieval Chronicles and the Rotation of the Earth by Robert R. Newton
Call Number: QB542 .N57
Playing with Time: Ovid and the Fasti by Carole E. Newlands
Call Number: PA25 .C7 vol.55
The Renaissance Discovery of Time by Ricardo J. Quinones
Call Number: PN721 .Q5
Tiempo y gozo eterno en la narrativa medieval : (la cantiga CIII) by J.F. Filgueira Valverde
Call Number: PN678 .F55 1982

General Understandings

Time in Antiquity by Robert Hannah (Editor)
Time in the Medieval World by Chris Humphrey (Editor); W. M. Ormrod (Editor)
Call Number: CB353 .T56 2001
The Ages of Man: a study in medieval writing thought by J. A. Burrow
Call Number: DA152.2 .B87 1986
Forme e modelli di durata nel pensiero medievale : l'aevum, il tempo discreto, la categoria "quando" by Pasquale Porro
Call Number: B738.T5 P67 1996
The Medieval Concept of Time: studies on the scholastic debate and its reception in early modern philosophy by Pasquale Porro (Editor)
Call Number: B738.T5 M43 2001
Tempo Ed Essere Nell'Autunno del Medioeve by Tiziana Suarez-Nani
Call Number: B765.N573 D47 1989
il De tempore di Nicola di Strasburgo e il dibattito sulla natura ed il senso del tempo agli inizi del XIV secolo
Tempus aevum aeternitatis : la concettualizzazione del tempo nel pensiero tardomedievale by Guido Alliney e Luciano Cova (Editors)
Call Number: BD638 .T465 2000
atti del colloquio internazionale, Trieste, 4-6 marzo 1999
Augustine; a collection of critical essays by R. A. Markus
Call Number: B655.Z7 M29
Paradoxes of time in Saint Augustine by Roland J. Teske.
Call Number: B655.Z7 T47 1996
Time Matters: time, creation, and cosmology in medieval Jewish philosophy by T. M. Rudavsky
Call Number: B755 .R83 2000
Time and Eternity: the medieval discourse by Gerhard Jaritz (Editor); Gerson Moreno-Riano
Call Number: B738.T6 I58 2000
Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages by Jacques Le Goff
ISBN: 0226470814
Symbols of Time in the History of Art by Christian Heck (Editor); Kristen Lippincott
The Medieval Concept of Time: Studies on the Scholastic Debate and its reception in Early Modern Philosophy by P. Porro (Editor)

Spatial

Mapping Time and Space by Evelyn Edson
Call Number: GA221 .E37 1999
The Maps of Matthew Paris by Daniel K. Connolly
Call Number: GA221 .C66 2009
Mapping Time: The Calendar and its history by E.G. Richards

Astronomical

Calendars and Years II: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient and Medieval World by John Steele
ISBN: 184217987X
Astronomies and Cultures in Early Medieval Europe by Stephen C. McCluskey
Call Number: QB23 .M43 1997
“Gregory of Tours, monastic timekeeping, and Early Christian attitudes to astronomy” by Stephen McCluskey
Isis 81 (1990): 8–22
“Astronomy, time, and churches in the Early Middle Ages” by Stephen McCluskey
in Marie-Therese Zenner, ed., Villard’s Legacy: Studies in Medieval Technology, Science and Art in Memory of Jean Gimpel (Aldershot: Ashgate), 197–210.
Time, Astronomy, and Calendars by Charles Burnett and Sacha Stern