{"id":26616,"date":"2023-07-11T08:16:44","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T06:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=235615"},"modified":"2023-07-11T10:11:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T08:11:36","slug":"how-did-medieval-people-tell-the-time","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/how-did-medieval-people-tell-the-time\/","title":{"rendered":"How did medieval people tell the time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> Gillian Adler and Paul Strohm explore the complex methods of timekeeping in the medieval period \u2013 from burning candles and sundials, to water clocks and the astrolabe <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Emily Briffett\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Tuesday, 11 July 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>It would be easy to assume that before the invention of the modern clock, people didn\u2019t have a very sophisticated sense of time \u2013 they rose with the sun, and went to bed when it got dark. But, according to Gillian Adler and Paul Strohm, medieval society\u2019s timekeeping was, in fact, far more complex. Speaking with Emily Briffett, they delve into medieval ideas about time, from human life cycles to the ages (and end) of the world.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-235615-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/07\/howdidmedievalpeopletellthetime-a672747.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/07\/howdidmedievalpeopletellthetime-a672747.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/07\/howdidmedievalpeopletellthetime-a672747.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong>Gillian Adler and Paul Strohm are the authors of <em>Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life<\/em> (Reaktion, 2023)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/p\/books\/alle-thyng-hath-tyme-time-and-medieval-life-gillian-adler\/7366278?ean=9781789146790&quot;\">Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Alle-Thyng-Hath-Tyme-Medieval\/dp\/1789146798?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\">Buy now on Amazon<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/go.skimresources.com?id=71026X1535947&amp;xcust=historyextra-social-histboty&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Falle-thyng-hath-tyme%2Fgillian-adler%2Fpaul-strohm%2F9781789146790&quot;\">Buy now on Waterstones<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Gillian Adler and Paul Strohm explore the complex methods of timekeeping in the medieval period \u2013 from burning candles and sundials, to water clocks and the astrolabe <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":26617,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/07\/how-did-medieval-people-tell-the-time.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/07\/how-did-medieval-people-tell-the-time-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/07\/how-did-medieval-people-tell-the-time-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/07\/how-did-medieval-people-tell-the-time.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/07\/how-did-medieval-people-tell-the-time.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/07\/how-did-medieval-people-tell-the-time.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/07\/how-did-medieval-people-tell-the-time.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Gillian Adler and Paul Strohm explore the complex methods of timekeeping in the medieval period \u2013 from burning candles and sundials, to water clocks and the astrolabe","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/26616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}