Publication date: June, 2024
Pages: 364, colour
ISBN 978-615-6696-32-8 Paperback, €46.00
ISBN 978-615-6696-31-1 Hardcover, €73.00
eISBN 978-615-6696-33-5 eBook, open access
DOI 10.22618/TP.RCTSP.2024.364
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Sociedad y medida del tiempo en la Castilla bajomedieval. Prólogo (Isabel del Val Valdivieso)
Prólogo del autor
Introducción
Definición del tema
Cuestiones metodológicas
Estado de la cuestión
Contenidos
Relojes públicos
León
Santa Marina del Rey
Salamanca
Medina del Campo
Palencia
Burgos
Valladolid
Sevilla
Relojes privados
Primeras noticias
Los relojes de Isabel I
Después de Isabel I
Relojeros
Precisiones sobre el oficio de relojero
Algunos relojeros
Un colectivo profesional con gran movilidad
Lo material
Construcción
Mantenimiento
El taller del relojero
Anexo: Talleres y herramientas de relojería
Lo inmaterial
El tiempo
Lo simbólico
Conclusiones
Introducción y difusión del reloj mecánico en Castilla
Implantación de la indicación horaria moderna e impacto social
Apéndice documental
Bibliografía
Conocer el tiempo es esencial para la coordinación de los diferentes actores de la sociedad del siglo XXI. Cada uno de nosotros va literalmente atado a un reloj por la muñeca y mirar la hora es un gesto interiorizado e inconsciente. El origen de esta necesidad se remonta a la aparición de los primeros relojes públicos en el siglo XIV, que eran objetos de prestigio y las ciudades competían entre sí por tener el más grande y vistoso. Como accesorio urbano, quedó ligado a la imagen de ciudad y del buen gobierno. Cargado de un complejo valor simbólico, el reloj se utilizo en metáforas de conceptos tan dispares como la ‘vanitas’, la mecánica del universo o la creación divina. En esta obra se desgrana la historia de los relojes castellanos más destacados desde la segunda mitad del siglo XIV en adelante, estudiando su construcción y los retos técnicos a los que se enfrentaban los relojeros. También se explica cómo cambió la forma de medir el tiempo a raíz de su la introducción así como su impacto cultural en la sociedad castellana.
Knowing the time is essential for the coordination of the different actors in twenty-first-century society. Each of us is literally tied to a clock by the wrist, and checking the time is an internalized, unconscious gesture. The origin of this need goes back to the appearance of the first public clocks in the fourteenth century, which were prestige objects, and cities competed with one another to have the largest and most eye-catching one. As an urban accessory, the clock became linked to the image of the city and of good government. Charged with a complex symbolic value, the clock was used in metaphors for concepts as disparate as vanitas, the mechanics of the universe, or divine creation. This book traces the history of the most notable Castilian clocks from the second half of the fourteenth century onward, studying their construction and the technical challenges faced by clockmakers. It also explains how the way of measuring time changed as a result of their introduction, as well as their cultural impact on Castilian society.
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