In this episode, we step into the Middle Ages to see how time was lived, shaped, and exchanged through encounters across cultures. Pilgrimages offered travelers a way to walk through sacred history, collapsing the distance between past and present. The Crusades became a clash not only of armies but also of calendars and rhythms, with Christian and Muslim worlds interpreting events through sacred time.

The Islamic Golden Age enriched Europe with astronomy, mathematics, and precise timekeeping, while the Silk Roads carried both goods and systems of reckoning time between East and West. In China, Mongol organization and innovations like relay stations brought synchronization to vast empires.

Closer to home, bells, markets, and feast days structured everyday life in medieval Europe, while legends of enchanted forests and monks lost in time reflected a fascination with the mysteries of temporal flow. The Middle Ages, far from stagnant, were vibrant with encounters that stitched communities together and reshaped the meaning of time.

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