front cover of The Medieval Postcolonial Jew, In and Out of Time
The Medieval Postcolonial Jew, In and Out of Time
Miriamne Ara Krummel
University of Michigan Press, 2022
The Medieval Postcolonial Jew, In and Out of Time studies violent temporal clashes that are written into the medieval vision of annus domini [the year of our Lord]. Christian temporality represents Jewish time as queerly oddly outmoded and advocating uncivil and socially disruptive behavior. Jewish temporality, in turn, records a marginalized people who work to rescue their embattled temporality from becoming a time forgotten and colonized. Through a select group of literature in Middle English, Latin, and Hebrew, as well as sixteen manuscript pictorials, author Miriamne Ara Krummel confronts the notion that annus domini time (whether disguised as CE or AD) figures as the universal standard. Krummel’s argument details how Other temporalities—ones outside and not like annus domini time—are cast as nonstandard and imagined as wholly devised out of stories that promote fear and terror, and are positioned as putative threats to the fabric of the temporal empire of Latin Christendom. Ultimately, the book reflects on the ways in which “common” time both marks and silences marginal identities and cultures and shows to what extent the dynamics of the medieval environment materialize in our modern world.
 
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front cover of Religion and the Politics of Time
Religion and the Politics of Time
Noah Shusterman
Catholic University of America Press, 2010
Religion and the Politics of Time is an extensive study of the changes in religious holidays in Old Regime and Revolutionary France.
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