Abstract

CARRIO-CATALDI, Leonardo-Ariel. Time, the Sea, and the World: Writing and Representing Time in Iberian Cultures (16^th-17^th Centuries). Hist. Soc. [online]. 2019, n.37, pp.23-51.  Epub Oct 10, 2019. ISSN 0121-8417.  https://doi.org/10.15446/hys.n37.78401.

In this article, I analyse a range of printed and handwritten sources produced during the 16th and 17th centuries, mainly in Europe. I explore the role played by the writing, representation and calculation of time during the expansion of the Iberian monarchies. Drawing on the idea that these intellectual operations were inscribed in precise cultural and social dynamics, I cover three main topics: the different branches of knowledge involved in the conceptualization of time; how this knowledge was circulated; and the construction of social and cultural oppositions based on assessments of the calculation and the writing of time. These oppositions, I argue, partly shaped the Iberian world, as well as the colonial society that emerged from its expansion. Following this threefold approach, I examine a selection of sources with the aim of discussing the complex historiographical narrative around the idea of a "Western time" resulting from the technological, scientific and political developments that took place in Europe during the early modern period.

Keywords : early modern history; history of science; history of technology; time; material culture.

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