ABSTRACT
Throughout this book, a narrative has been told about the increasing interconnections between globalization processes and time issues. During the late medieval period, space-bound Europe became familiar with the mechanical clock which, beginning in the Italian city-states, swiftly diffused across Europe. Unequal hours turned into equal ones, while the time of the clock varied no longer by season. The proper manner of keeping time spread out among the citizens of commercial cities and to rural areas where monasteries were located. The partitioning and structuring of the day into segments and stretches of time became perfected in the numerous monasteries of medieval Europe (Whipp et al. 2002). Monks executed their daily obligations less by dependence on private impulses or nature but by a fully regulated regime with strict clock time patterns.
