Time : : sense, space, structure / / 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...

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Superior document:Presenting the Past : Central Issues in Medieval and Early Modern Studies Across the Disciplines, Volume 5
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Presenting the past (Leiden, Netherlands) ; Volume 5.
Physical Description:1 online resource (472 p.)
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of 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.