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 challenging relationship between the interior sense of
time and the external pressures of linearism and cyclicality.
Chaucer's diverse philosophical ideas about time unfold through the
reciprocity between form and discourse, thus encouraging a new look
at not only the characters' ruminations on time in the tradition of
St Augustine and Boethius, but also manifold narrative sequences
and structures, including anachronism.
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