Article ID: CBB001201795

Against the Clock: Time Awareness in Early Modern Antwerp, 1585--1789 (2013)

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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.

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Authors & Contributors
Frumer, Yulia
McCrossen, Alexis
Wersan, Kate
Karim P. Y. Thébault
Lois G. Schwoerer
Schilt, Cornelis J.
Concepts
Time measurement
Time perception
Time
Clocks and Watches
Technology and culture
Science and culture
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
19th century
16th century
Edo period (Japan, 1603-1868)
20th century, early
Places
United States
Japan
Great Britain
England
Americas
Spain
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