Material Histories of Time: Objects and Practices, 14th-19th Centuries

Published by De Gruyter 2020

Material Histories of Time

Objects and Practices, 14th-19th Centuries

Edited by: Gianenrico Bernasconi and Susanne Thürigen

Volume 3 in the series Object Studies in Art History

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110625035

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The historiography of timekeeping is traditionally characterized by a dichotomy between research that investigates the evolution of technical devices on the one hand, and research that is concerned with the examination of the cultures and uses of time on the other hand.

Material Histories of Time opens a dialogue between these two approaches by taking monumental clocks, table clocks, portable watches, carriage clocks, and other forms of timekeeping as the starting point of a joint reflection of specialists of the history of horology together with scholars studying the social and cultural history of time. The contributions range from the apparition of the first timekeeping mechanical systems in the Middle Ages to the first evidence of industrialization in the 18^th and 19^th centuries.

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Susanne Thürigen, Dresden State Art Collection

Gianenrico Bernasconi, Université de Neuchâtel

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Introduction Gianenrico Bernasconi and Susanne Thürigen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Musique et Jouvence au royaume de France. Le Roman de Fauvel et la fontaine de Cleveland (Paris, vers 1320) Philippe Cordez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Designing a Model of the Cosmos. Theoretical and Visual Considerations Concerning the Construction of Astronomical Clocks through Early Modern Times Günther Oestmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
The 16^th-century Astronomical Clock of the National Maritime Museum of Greenwich. Cultural and Sensorial Analysis Víctor Pérez-Álvarez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Clocks, Clock Time and Time Consciousness in the Visual Arts. William Hogarth’s Modern Moral Subjects Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
De l’acquisition au réglage. L’horlogerie parisienne du xviiie siècle et ses usages Marie-Agnès Dequidt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Time Technologies. Londoners and Their Timepieces (1775–1825) Gerrit Verhoeven Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
La montre et l’odomètre. À propos de l’Itinéraire des routes les plus fréquentées de Louis Dutens (1775) Nicolas Verdier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Les montres de voyage. Désignations, techniques et usages (1700–1830) Catherine Herr-Laporte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Les voyageurs et leurs montres en Europe à la fin du xviiie siècle. Entre précision technique et flou temporel Grégoire Besson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Time Management at School from the Late Middle Ages to the Industrial Age. A Few Cases in Point Fabio Pruneri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Temps et cuisine, xvii^e–xviii^esiècles. Remarques sur les pratiques de transformation alimentaire Gianenrico Bernasconi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Clocks and Timekeeping in Lavoisier’s Experiments on Animal Respiration. The Chemical Revolution, Its Material Culture and Taken-for-Granted Knowledge Marco Storni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Broken Watches. Sources and Methods for the Study of Time Consciousness Alexis McCrossen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
The First Black Forest Clock. How a Fake Impacted Our Notion of Clock History Johannes Graf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Picture Credits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225

(Deutsch)

Languages: English, French
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Art historians, cultural historians
Pages
- Main content: 226
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 63
Keywords: Uhr; Zeitmessung; Zeitbewusstsein; Kunstgewerbe; Taschenuhr

eBook

Published: December 16, 2020
ISBN: 9783110625035

Hardcover

Published: December 16, 2020
ISBN: 9783110622133