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The Linear understanding of Time in European Art

The Blindboy Podcast

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Time and Usury in Christianity

Around the late middle ages, like the eleventhen that's where we start to get this concept of time being a thing that you could waste. Up unto the thirteenth century, christians couldn't make money from money. Giant mechanical clocks started to be made round the fourteenth century in towns and workers were expected to work. It was also at this time that christians stopped considering usury as a sin.

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