Philosophische Fakultät, Historisches Seminar

Wie schnell waren das Mittelalter und die Frühe Neuzeit? (Weimarer Rendez-vous mit der Geschichte)

Date
4. Nov 2023, 12.00 pm
Location
Notenbank Weimar
Series
Weimarer Rendez-vous mit der Geschichte "Tempo, Tempo! Zeit und Zeitwahrnehmungen in der Geschichte"
Organizer
Weimarer Rendez-vous mit der Geschichte
Event type
Discussion/Forum
Event Language(s)
German
Audience
public

Discussion on the topic "How fast were the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period? On Times, Clocks and Acceleration before Modernity" with Professor Dr Hans-Werner Goetz (University of Hamburg) and Joseph Kretzschmar, M.A. (Erfurt/Bremen) as part of the Weimar Rendez-vous with History. Introduction and moderation: Professor Dr Susanne Rau (University of Erfurt).

Event in cooperation with RaumZeit-Forschung at the University of Erfurt.

While sociology shares this widespread view and assumes that the acceleration of social life is a phenomenon of the modern age, historians can show that there were also phases in earlier times when people felt that time was passing too quickly. The panel would like to discuss concepts of time, rhythms of time and perceptions of time in the Middle Ages and the early modern period, and in doing so ask what diagnosis is actually involved when people say that time is passing more quickly or more slowly. [...]

For more information on the event, please visit the page of the Weimar History Festival Rendez-vous with History.