IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 636: Save the Date!: Conflicting Ideas about the Quality of Time in Memory and for Prognosis, II
Tuesday 3 July 2018, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Uta Heil, Institut für Kirchengeschichte, Christliche Archäologie und Kirchliche Kunst, Universität Wien |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Miriam Czock, Historisches Institut, Universität Duisburg-Essen |
| Paper 636-a | There Will Be Blood…: Deciding on the Best and Worst Days to Let Blood in Carolingian Times (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Medicine |
| Paper 636-b | Be Still and Wait for Better Times: Unlucky Days in Early Medieval Manuscripts (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Religious Life |
| Paper 636-c | As Sure as the Sun Will Rise?: Dealing with Conflicting Ideas about Days and Times in the Carolingian Period (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Education, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | In Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, time was not a neutral but a qualified category. But how and why did special days get an intrinsic quality as good days, bad days or specific days for specific activities? How was this - sometimes contradictory - set of ideas transmitted and taught? The papers deal with beneficial and precarious, prognostic and commemorative calendrical knowledge about days and times, including a focus on related so-called 'pagan', 'Jewish' and 'Christian' ideas about the calendar in memory and for prognosis. |