We are again privileged to have a guest post from Kevin Birth, an anthropology professor at Queens College with expertise on the history of time. His other contributions to the ESN blog can be found here and a series on his book "Objects of Time" can be found here. His previous 2016 post on Lent and time is here. Open up a datebook and day planner, and look at the empty boxes just waiting to be filled. They are all the same size, the same shape, and they convey a sense of time as being made up of containers to be … [Read more...] about The Passion and the Punctuated Day