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- Title
Against the clock: time awareness in early modern Antwerp, 1585–1789.
- Authors
BLONDÉ, BRUNO; VERHOEVEN, GERRIT
- Abstract
Traditionally a large role has been attributed to the spread of clocks and watches in fostering a ‘modern’ awareness of time. Yet, little research is available that empirically enables signs of growing time awareness to be linked to the distribution of time-keeping devices. In this article both these phenomena are brought together using two independent sets of evidence that permit the hypothesis that clocks and watches contributed to a heightened consciousness of time to be tested. While the ownership of clocks and watches was socially skewed, highly gendered and unevenly distributed over time, time awareness – as exemplified throughout numerous court cases – was essentially none of these.
- Subjects
BELGIUM; ANTWERP (Belgium); TIME; ACTIONS &; defenses (Law); AWARENESS; CRIMINAL justice system; WITNESSES; CLOCKS &; watches -- History; HISTORY of courts; HISTORY
- Publication
Continuity & Change, 2013, Vol 28, Issue 2, p213
- ISSN
0268-4160
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S026841601300026X