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Book SynopsisTime 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. Contributors are members of Tuomas Heikkilä’s research group at the Finnish Institute in Rome: Holger Kaasik, Urpo Kantola, Marko Halonen, Jasmin Lukkari and Saku Pihko.
Table of Contents List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Time and the Eternal City Tuomas Heikkilä 2 Temporal Expressions in Canonisation Processes and Diari, and the Perception of Time in Late Medieval Rome Saku Pihko 3 The Jubilee of 1300 as an Instrument of Time Control and Papal Power Jasmin Lukkari 4 Time Set in Stone: Temporal References in the Non-funerary Epigraphy of Rome (1000–1527 AD) Urpo Kantola 5 The Medieval Calendars of S. Pietro in Vaticano and S. Maria Maggiore in Rome Holger Kaasik 6 Navigating the Cycles of Time: Calendar Dates and the Week in a 13th Century Vatican Calendar Holger Kaasik 7 Calendars in Use: Comparing S. Pietro in Vaticano and S. Maria Maggiore in Rome Holger Kaasik 8 Complex Tools for Complex Time: Solar, Stellar, and Lunar Cycles of Time in Medieval Roman Calendars Marko Halonen Appendix 1: Non-Funerary Epigraphs in Vincenzo Forcella’s Iscrizioni delle chiese ed altri edifici di Roma up to 1527AD: a Checklist Appendix 2: Other Publications Appendix 3: Topographic Summary Appendix 4: Calendrical Contrivances Used in Rome between the 10th and 16th Centuries Index of Persons Index of Places
