Secrets of a Lost Art, part 2: Chronograms

Chronogram Words, 2019

This is a personal reference work that I have compiled over the years. It can be used as a quick guide to chronogram words (candrasangkala, sengkalan) in Javanese texts from the 17th century onwards. Search for words you wish to identify using the regular ^f command. Pepet is represented as /e/ and taling as /E/ for ease in searching. Words are arranged alphabetically within numerical value categories (watak 1) with headwords followed by related and derivative terms.

Renaissance and Reformation 40.2 (2017)

During the sixteenth century, confessional disputes between Catholics and Protestants became the " battlefield " for determining and shaping the reformed Christian religion. Antiquarian erudition played a key role in this process, acting in accordance with the diverse cultural systems in place, justifying doctrinaire positions, and legitimizing the existence of their institutions. Renaissance chronotaxes illustrate this point particularly well. In this article, for the first time, the ecclesiastical chronotaxes disseminated to Christian scholarly environments throughout Renaissance Europe have been collated and studied. Both the driving forces behind this cultural phenomenon and the methods applied are investigated. The key objective here is to present the first catalogue of these works and to offer valuable material that sheds further light on the cultural, historical, and religious dynamics of the time, which may serve as the basis for further academic debate.

Ingenium. Revista Electrónica de Pensamiento Moderno y Metodología en Historia de las Ideas, 2021

The general aim of the present paper is to set out the characteristics of what I call the (or a) baroque time, trying as such to reveal how baroque is linked with this category, in opposition both with the current, «popular» perception of it or with powerful theoretical interpretations, which are permeated by a spatio-visual kind of lecture. I sketchily present then three significant analyses (of Benjamin, Maravall and Bal) where we find an attempt, more or less vigorous, to establish a link of this sort, in counterflow to this mainstream spatio-visual conception of baroque. Trying to reveal the specificity of the temporality for baroque, inside modernity as a whole, we will see that these analyses failed in offering a positive starting point, but for different reasons.

Chronolog, 2024

Chronolog is a scientific, peer reviewed open access journal for students at or related to the University of Copenhagen. The content is focused on the archaeology, language, and culture of the Ancient Near East.

Springer Series on Cultural Computing, 2013

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KronoScope, 2018

In this essay I discuss the various ways time can be inscribed in texts below the level of explicit propositions about time. I argue that a full chronographical analysis needs to account for the dimensions of the theoretical, the practical, and the aesthetic. Taking Kant's table of categories as a guide to the fundamental functions of chronographic determination, I propose a methodology of analysis that goes beyond the aspect of quantitative measurement, and includes typological, thetic, and modal information about time. Numerous examples from various textual domains such as poetry, historiography, science, and law illustrate the wide applicability of the proposed analytical categories. The full matrix of dimensions and determinative functions can be used to describe the chronographic signature of a text, which depends as much on its communicative purpose as on the technologies of calculating and describing time available to its authors.

The reintroduction of time-keeping technology to the Latin West from the thirteenth century and its subsequent submission to new applications produced the appearance of both large and small-scale clocks in the Renaissance.

Chronolog, 2023

Chronolog is a new journal organised by students and new graduates at the University of Copenhagen, CNES - studies of the culture, history, archaeology and language of the Ancient Near East. Chronolog is published open source.