Chaucer And The Ethics Of Time

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 Chaucers 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 Challenging Relationship Between The Interior Sense Of Time And The External Pressures Of Linearism And Cyclicality.