Time and Eternity: The Medieval Discourse

548 Pages·2002·8.61 MB·English

by  G. Jaritz

TIME AND ETERNITY
THE MEDIEVAL DISCOURSE
INTERNATIONAL MEDIEVAL RESEARCH
Volume 9
Editorial Board
Axel E. W. Müller, Alan V. Murray, Peter Meredith, & Ian N. Wood
with the assistance of the IMC Programming Committee
TIME AND ETERNITY
THE MEDIEVAL DISCOURSE
Edited by
Gerhard Jaritz
&
Gerson Moreno-Riaño
H
F
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Time and eternity: the medieval discourse. – (International medieval research; 9)
1.Chronology 2.Time – History – To 1500
I.Jaritz, Gerhard, 1949- II.Moreno-Riaño, Gerson, 1971-529
ISBN 2503513123

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Contents
Introduction
Time and Eternity: Where Doubt Continues to Exist 1
GERHARD JARITZ AND GERSON MORENO-RIAÑO
What Is Time?
A Present Sense of Things Past: Quid est enim tempus? 9
WESLEY STEVENS
Time, Its Computation and the Use of Calendars
The Emergence of Anno Domini 31
DANIEL P. M CARTHY
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‘Sexta aetas continet annos praeteritos DCCVIIII’ 55
(Bede, De temporibus, 22): A Scribal Error?
MASAKO OHASHI
Abbo of Fleury and the Computational 63
Accuracy of the Christian Era
PETER VERBIST
The Influence of Bede’s De temporum ratione 81
on Ælfric’s Understanding of Time
AARON J. KLEIST
Coping with Conflict: Lunar and Solar 99
Cycles in the Liturgical Calendars
JOYCE HILL
L’importance du calendrier dans 109
le roman de Flamenca
UTE LIMACHER-RIEBOLD
Jewish Concepts of Time and Redemption
The Rabbinic Concept of Time from 129
Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages
SACHA STERN
Time and Cosmology in Late Medieval 147
Jewish Philosophy
T. M. RUDAVSKY
Crescas’s Concept of Time 163
HYAM MACCOBY
Prophecy and Redemption: Messianic 171
Expectation in Nahmanides’ Sefer ha-Ge’ulah
NINA CAPUTO
Christian Philosophies of Eternity and Time
Interpreting Eternity in Thomas Aquinas 193
HARM GORIS
History and Everlastingness in Hugh 203
of St Victor’s Figures of Noah’s Ark
JOHN A. H. LEWIS
The Understanding of Time and Eternity 223
in the Philosophy of Magister John Hus
JOZEF MATULA
Monastic and Clerical Conceptions
Timeless Time: Dramatical Eternity in the 233
Monastery under Bernard of Clairvaux
WIM VERBAAL
The Continuum of Time and Eternity in the 251
Liber specialis gratiae of Mechtild
of Hackeborn (1241–99)
ANN M. CARON
Life-Cycle and Life-Course in a Clerical 271
and Celibate Milieu: Northern England
in the Later Middle Ages
P. H. CULLUM
The Sea as an Image of Temporality among 283
Tuscan Dominicans and Humanists
in the Fourteenth Century
TIMOTHY KIRCHER
Literary Representations
Going Round in Circles? Time and 297
the Old English Apollonius of Tyre
PHILIPPA J. SEMPER
The Psychedelic Transmogrification 309
of the Soul in Vercelli Homily IV
THOMAS N. HALL
Time and Eternity in the Anglo-Saxon Elegies 323
JOHN DENNIS GROSSKOPF
Discourse and Ideology in the Old English 331
‘The Wanderer’: Time and Eternity
JUAN CAMILO CONDE-SILVESTRE
Body and Soul: Pearl and Apocalyptic Literature 355
CYNTHIA KRAMAN
The Significance of Time Referents 363
in Lydgate’s Work
KAREN SMYTH
In Zeit und im Angesicht der Ewigkeit. Lavinia 373
und Aeneas: eine dauernde Liebe mit weitreichenden
Folgen
MARIA E. DORNINGER
Time and Art
When Space is Time. The Rhetoric 403
of Eternity: Hierarchy and Narrative
in Medieval and Renaissance Art
PETER NESTERUK
‘Fiat Lux’: Iconology and Theology 427
of Time in Medieval Catalonia
ALFONS PUIGARNAU
Picturing Time in Bartholomew’s Encyclopaedia 451
on the Properties of Things
SUE ELLEN HOLBROOK
God’s Time? Purgatory and Temporality 477
in Late Medieval Art
ROBERT MILLS
The End of the World
The Final Countdown: Apocalyptic 501
Expectations in Anglo-Saxon Charters
ROLF H. BREMMER JR.
Astrology and the Antichrist in the 515
Late Middle Ages
HILARY M. CAREY
Introduction