Medievalists.net » Time http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Primstav and Apocalypse Time and its Reckoning in Medieval Scandinavia http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/22/primstav-apocalypse-time-reckoning-medieval-scandinavia/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/22/primstav-apocalypse-time-reckoning-medieval-scandinavia/#comments Thu, 22 May 2014 07:58:15 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=49709 This work is intended as an exploration of methods of time-reckoning and conception in Medieval Scandinavia. In the main this is tied to the dynamism between a duality: that of the cyclical and linear models of time‟s progression. Involved in this study are sources verbal and pictoral.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/22/primstav-apocalypse-time-reckoning-medieval-scandinavia/feed/ 0 The Concept of Time in the Medieval World View http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/01/concept-time-medieval-world-view/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/01/concept-time-medieval-world-view/#comments Wed, 02 Apr 2014 02:20:48 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=48729 Once upon a time a monk left his monastery for a walk in the cloister garden. He had often been pondering the meaning of eternity and heavenly bliss and had frequently prayed to God, asking him for an illustration of one moment of heavenly bliss.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/01/concept-time-medieval-world-view/feed/ 0 Early medieval science: the evidence of Bede http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/10/early-medieval-science-the-evidence-of-bede/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/10/early-medieval-science-the-evidence-of-bede/#comments Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:52:39 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=30001 The Venerable Bede used observable proofs and mathematical calculations in his early 8th-century treatise De temporum ratione to teach the astronomical principles that inform the calculation of the date of Easter. This suggests that the seeds of the modern scientific method might be found before the 12th century in the educational practices of the early medieval monasteries.

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