Fascination with Unknown Time

Sibylle Baumbach is Professor of English Literature at Innsbruck University, Austria.Lena Henningsen is Professor of Chinese Studies at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany.Klaus Oschema is Professor of Medieval History at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.All editors are members or alumni of the German Young Academy (Die Junge Akademie).

• 1. Time in the Making: Why All the Fuss about Time? On Time, the Unknown, and Fascination (Sibylle Baumbach, Lena Henningsen, and Klaus Oschema).- 2. The Old Made New: Medieval Repurposing of Prophecies (Anke Holdenried).- 3. ‘Wunschzeit’ Jerusalem: Rethinking the Distinction between Time and Space in Medieval Utopias (Christian Hoffarth).- 4. Living on the Edge of Time: Temporal Patterns and Irregularities in Byzantine Historical Apocalypses (András Kraft).- 5. Unknown or Uncertain? Astrologers, the Church, and the Future in the Late Middle Ages (Klaus Oschema).- 6. “From the Unknown to the Known and Backwards”: Representing and Presenting Remote Time in Nineteenth-Century Palaeontology (Marco Tamborini).- 7. Introducing Time to Ethnographic Displays: Narrative Strategies of Revealing the Unknown in German Ethnological Museums (Katja Wehde).- 8. “God’s Time Is the Best”: The Fascination with Unknown Time in Urban Transport in Lagos (Daniel E. Agbiboa).- 9. Perpetual Wanderers—Timeless Heroes: Gypsies in European Musical Culture (Anna G. Piotrowska).- 10. The Present: An ‘Unknown Time’ in the German Kaiserreich around 1900 (Caroline Rothauge).- 11. The Time-Image and the Unknown in Wong Kar-wai’s Film Art (Dorothee Xiaolong Hou and Sheldon H. Lu).- 12. Suspense in the Cinema: Knowledge and Time (Hauke Lehmann).- 13. Futurology, Allegory, Time Travel: What Makes Science Fiction Fascinating (Kai Wiegandt).