Medieval Temporalities: The Experience of Time in Medieval Europe

Essays investigating the question of time, and how it was perceived, both in philosophical/religious terms, and in reality.

How was time experienced in the Middle Ages? What attitudes informed people's awareness of its passing - especially when tensions between eternity and human time shaped perceptions in profound and often unexpected ways? Is it a human universal or culturally specific - or both?
The essays here offer a range of perspectives on and approaches to personal, artistic, literar...