The fascination with unknown time

Abstract

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Time in the Making: Why All the Fuss About Time? On Time, the Unknown, and Fascination -- Time and the Unknown -- Ways of Time-Making -- The Fascination with Unknown Time -- Roadmap: To Boldly Go Where no WoMan Has Gone Before -- Bibliography -- Part I Past Futures -- Chapter 2 The Old Made New: Medieval Repurposing of Prophecies -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 'Wunschzeit' Jerusalem: Rethinking the Distinction Between Time and Space in Medieval Utopias -- 'No-Place-Land' and 'Neverland' -- Wunschräume and Wunschzeiten-Scholarship on Medieval Utopias -- Wunschzeit Jerusalem -- Conclusion: Unknown Time and the Transcendence of Reality -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 Living on the Edge of Time: Temporal Patterns and Irregularities in Byzantine Historical Apocalypses -- The Chronology of Apocalyptic Time -- Calculations of the Date of the Apocalypse -- The Sequence of Future Events -- The Typological Structure of Apocalyptic Time -- Massacre of the Innocents Typology -- Exodus Typology -- Flood Typology -- Christological Typologies -- The Speed of Apocalyptic Time -- Narrative Speed -- The Shortening of Days -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 Unknown or Uncertain? Astrologers, the Church, and the Future in the Late Middle Ages -- Medieval Thinking and the Future: A Very Short Introduction -- Astrologers and the Future: Claims and Limitations -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 'From the Unknown to the Known and Backwards:' Representing and Presenting Remote Time in Nineteenth-Century Palaeontology -- The Destructive Power of Geological Time -- Representing the Fossil Record as Monuments of Remote Time -- Tables, Diagrams, Graphs, and Patterns: Presenting the Fossil Record in the Flow of Unknown Time -- Conclusion -- Bibliography