01852cam a2200301Ii 4500 on1109861111 OCoLC ta 210614s2020 gw adeh b 000 0 eng d 9783110622133 3110622130 (OCoLC)1109861111 NK7486 .M38 2020 Material histories of time : objects and practices, 14th-19th centuries / edited by Gianenrico Bernasconi and Susanne Thürigen. Objects and practices, 14th-19th centuries Berlin : Walter de Gruyter & Co., [2020] 226 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), charts, facsim., plans. Object studies in art history ; vol. 3 Includes bibliographical references. 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 18th and 19th centuries. 8 contributions in English, 6 in French. Clocks and watches History. Time Sociological aspects. Bernasconi, Gianenrico. Thurigen, Susanne, 1986- Object studies in art history ; v. 3. lcc BK 0 0 0 0 PNLIB PNLIB GEN 2021-06-17 NK7486 .M38 2020 PNLIB21063047 2021-06-17 2021-06-17 BK 3234 3234