Materiality and memory: An archaeological perspective on the popular adoption of linear time in Britain

H. Mytum

Materiality and memory: An archaeological perspective on the popular adoption of linear time in Britain

H. Mytum

Archaeology

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Abstract

Archaeologists increasingly realise that prehistoric peoples had their own ideas about time. The concept of linear, measurable time emerged in learned Europe largely in the first millennium. Here the author tracks how, with the broadening of literacy in sixteenth-century Britain, dates start appearing on numerous items of popular culture. The dated objects in turn feed back into the way that people of all social levels began to see themselves and their place in history.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	381-396
Number of pages	15
Journal	Antiquity
Volume	81
Issue number	312
Publication status	Published - Jun 2007

Keywords

Britain
Reformation
time
memory
church
bells
memorials

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http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/Ant/081/0381/ant0810381.pdf

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