CONCEPCIÓN MODERNA DEL TIEMPO EN EL VIAJE DE UNOS FRAILES DE SAN BENITO EL REAL DE VALLADOLID A MEDIADOS DEL SIGLO XV

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  • Víctor Pérez Álvarez
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6018/j29791
Keywords: time, time measuring, time-conscious, nocturnal, mechanical clock, sundial, astronomy, travels, monacticism, Benedictine Reformation

Abstract

The monastery of San Benito el Real of Valladolid in XVth century directed a Reformation of other benedictine monasteries in the Kingdom of Castile in order to obligate to the compliance of the San Benito´s rule. As a result of this, the relationships among the monasteries increased and the friars travelled along the kingdom of Castile. This research is about one of this travels and it analizes the time-conscious and the time-measuring in the course of the travel. The main source is a document stored in the Archivo Histórico Nacional. This essay considers the possibility of using astronomical knowledge and devices to measure the time during the travels without mechanical clocks. The friars had a great interest in time, because they measured it with hours of equal length, as we do today. Finally the survey concludes explaining that the friars had an abstract and modern conception of time connected with the diffussion of the mechanical clock and its use.

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Víctor Pérez Álvarez

Universidad de Valladolid
How to Cite
Pérez Álvarez, V. (2007). CONCEPCIÓN MODERNA DEL TIEMPO EN EL VIAJE DE UNOS FRAILES DE SAN BENITO EL REAL DE VALLADOLID A MEDIADOS DEL SIGLO XV. Murcian Medieval Miscellany, (31), 139–148. https://doi.org/10.6018/j29791
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