Marking time , [2020]
- Title(s):
- Marking time : objects, people, and their lives, 1500-1800 / edited by Edward Town & Angela McShane.
- Additional Title(s):
- Marking time (Yale Center for British Art)
- Published/Created:
- New Haven : Yale Center for British Art, [2020]
New Haven : Yale University Press - Physical Description:
- 518 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 27 cm
- Holdings:
- Reference LibraryBF468 .M35 2020 (LC)Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
Note: Please contact the Reference Library to schedule an appointment [Email ycba.reference@yale.edu] - Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/15777305
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
"How do we measure the days of our lives? Marking Time considers that profound question in the context of early modern Britain. The period from 1500 to 1800 was one of extraordinary social transformations, many having to do with the way time itself was understood, measured, and recorded. - Subject Terms:
- Time and art.Time and art.Time perception.Time perception.
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- Running Like Clockwork? Objects and "Early Modern" Time / Glenn Adamson
- Past Times: Temporalities in Early Modern England / Keith Wrightson
- Anglo-American Artisanal Time: Cumulative, Partially Invisible, Nonlinear, and Episodic / Edward S. Cooke, Jr.
- Marking Transatlantic Time: Britain and the Caribbean / Justin M. Brown
- Time, Measurement, and Authority/ Angela McShane
- Narrative Time and the View from the Nineteenth Century / Gavriella Levy Haskell
- Stopping Time: The Material Culture of Death and Commemoration / Nathan Flis
- Catalogue / all essays by Edward Town
- Epilogue: John H. Bryan Jr.: A Collector's Magical Kingdom / Jenny Saunt.