"Time in the Eternal City: Perceiving and Controlling Time in Late Medieval and Renaissance Rome" is a major contribution to the study of time and its numerous aspects in late medieval and Renaissance Rome. The authors offer a versatile view on the variety of ways time could be perceived. Individual chapters concentrate on the grass-root levels of everyday life, on various uses of the past in the present, as well as on the control of time by the ecclesiastical authorities. These studies reveal a wealth of new information that demonstrates the almost endlessly fluid manner in which time could be perceived, as well as the innovative ways in which time could be used by individuals and authorities alike.
Author(s): Tuomas Heikkilä (ed.)
Series: Later Medieval Europe, 22
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 406
City: Leiden
List of Illustrations vii
Notes on Contributors ix
1. Time and the Eternal City / Tuomas Heikkilä 1
2. Temporal Expressions in Canonisation Processes and Diari, and the Perception of Time in Late Medieval Rome / Saku Pihko 15
3. The Jubilee of 1300 as an Instrument of Time Control and Papal Power / Jasmin Lukkari 59
4. Time Set in Stone: Temporal References in the Non-Funerary Epigraphy of Rome (1000–1527 AD) / Urpo Kantola 106
5. The Medieval Calendars of S. Pietro in Vaticano and S. Maria Maggiore in Rome / Holger Kaasik 159
6. Navigating the Cycles of Time: Calendar Dates and the Week in a 13th Century Vatican Calendar / Holger Kaasik 220
7. Calendars in Use: Comparing S. Pietro in Vaticano and S. Maria Maggiore in Rome / Holger Kaasik 242
8. Complex Tools for Complex Time: Solar, Stellar, and Lunar Cycles of Time in Medieval Roman Calendars / Marko Halonen 275
Appendix 1: Non-Funerary Epigraphs in Vincenzo Forcella’s 'Iscrizioni delle chiese ed altri edifici di Roma' up to 1527 AD: A Checklist 315
Appendix 2: Other Publications regarding Inscriptions 352
Appendix 3: Topographic Summary of Inscriptions 375
Appendix 4: Calendrical Contrivances Used in Rome between the 10th and
16th Centuries 383
Index of Persons 389
Index of Places 395
