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

• Superior document: Presenting the Past : Central Issues in Medieval and Early Modern Studies Across the Disciplines, Volume 5
• TeilnehmendeR: Van Deusen, Nancy; Koff, Leonard Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Presenting the past (Leiden, Netherlands) ; Volume 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (472 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction /; Time and Again: Early Medieval Chronography and the Recurring Holy First-Created Day of George Synkellos /; Registering Rome: The Eternal City Through the Eyes of Pope Gregory vii /; Building Block of Times, Knowledge and Wisdom in the Hortus deliciarum /; Simultaneous Times: Synderesis and its Musical Exemplification /; Trinity, Simultaneity, and the Music of Creation in St. Bonaventure /; Hugh of St. Cher and Thomas Aquinas: Time and the Interpretation of the Psalms /; Walter Burley on the Time of Unknowing /; Theological and Social Time: The Case of the Beguines /; Medieval Mechanical Clocks /; Providence, Temporal Authority, and the Illustrious Vernacular in Dante’s Political Philosophy /; Time, Myth and the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns: Racine and Fontenelle /; Time and Space as Manipulated Materials in Rameau’s Les Cyclopes /; Resisting Death’s Finality: Jules Dalou’s Blanqui Tomb and the Dialectics of Memorialization /; End of Story: Closed Form and Open Time /; Time and the Self in Virginia Woolf and Richard Powers /; Temporality and Control in Sondheim’s Middle Period: From Company to Sunday in the Park with George /; Remembering the Future /; “Real Time”. On the Whereabouts of Time in New Media: The Case of Webcams /; No-Time in Non-Places /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004312315
• ISSN: 1875-2799
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Nancy van Deusen, Leonard Michael Koff.

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.