It takes the average reader 4 hours and 22 minutes to read Chaucer and the Ethics of Time by Gillian Adler
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Geoffrey Chaucer wrote at a turning point in the history of timekeeping, but many of his poems demonstrate a greater interest in the moral dimension of time than in the mechanics of the medieval clock. Chaucer and the Ethics of Time examines Chaucer’s sensitivity to the insecurity of human experience amid the temporal circumstances of change and time-passage, as well as strategies for ethicising historical vision in several of his major works. While wasting time was sometimes viewed as a sin in the late Middle Ages, Chaucer resists conventional moral dichotomies and explores a complex and...
Chaucer and the Ethics of Time by Gillian Adler is 256 pages long, and a total of 65,536 words.
This makes it 86% the length of the average book. It also has 80% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 58 minutes to read Chaucer and the Ethics of Time aloud.
Chaucer and the Ethics of Time is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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