Medieval Measurement: Time

I pride myself on doing my research thoroughly and efficiently—as my course, Rein in Your Research attests. Yet the one topic I always have to investigate again and again when I write novels set before the 17th century concerns measurement. Many of the units and types of measurement we take for granted weren’t in common use before then, if they existed at all. Which makes describing how far, how long, how much time etc. a bit trickier than it might seem.

Our everyday obsession with measurement i...