Master's thesis defence: Humanities (History)

Defence of a master's thesis in History on how public clocks changed life in European cities: cover with a 3D chronograph, a date as a hook, question and sources, archival method, map of how clocks spread, results with charts, discussion, conclusions, conferences with the map flying from one to the next, publications, backup slides for the committee and notes with timings.

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What’s inside

  1. The hours of the city: how public clocks changed daily life in Europe, 1300 to 1800
  2. Before that, the day was marked by the church bells: sunrise, midday, sunset.
  3. Question, hypothesis and objectives
  4. What was already known
  5. The sources: six cities and 1,800 documents
  6. How I worked
  7. From the tower clock to the pocket watch
  8. Result 1 · The spread of clocks · one click, one city
  9. Result 2 · The rules that depend on the clock
  10. Result 3 · A life with a timetable
  11. Discussion
  12. The public clock turned time into a rule that governed the city.
  13. Conference attendance · five venues in Europe
  14. Conferences I have taken part in
  15. Publications and other merits
  16. Thank you
  17. Isn't there a bias? Only the archives of rich cities survive
  18. Why start in 1300 and end in 1800?

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