Project Publications

  • Champion, Matthew S. “Re-casting Histories of Sound and Matter: Erasmus and the Bells of Averbode.” Sixteenth Century Journal 54.1–2 (2023): 73–98.

    Champion, Matthew S. “St Catharine and the Clock: Possible Histories of Sound and Time in Fourteenth-Century France.” Speculum 98.4 (2023): 1166–1195.

    Champion, Matthew S. “Clocks, Calendars, and Crossings: Religious Temporalities in Medieval Middelburg.” Special issue: ‘Temporality, Urbanity and Religion’ (eds. Jörg Rüpke and Anna Sun). Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 24 (2023): 287–307.

    Champion, Matthew S. “Sung Farewells: Listening for Nostalgia’s Futures in the Long Fifteenth Century.” In Early Modern Nostalgia: Memory, Emotion and Temporality, edited by Harriet Lyon and Alexandra Walsham, 209–227. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2023.

    Champion, Matthew S. “Pointing to a Deeper Now: Time, Sound, Touch and the Devotional Present in Fifteenth-Century Northern Europe.” In Time and Presence in Art: Moments of Encounter (200–1600 CE), edited by Armin Bergmeier and Andrew Griebeler, 113–134. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021.

    Champion, Matthew S. Review of Gendered Temporalities in the Early Modern World, ed. Merry Wiesner-Hanks (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018). English Historical Review 136, 581 (2021): 1045-47. Available here.

    Champion, Matthew S. “The History of Temporalities: An Introduction.” Past and Present 243 (2019): 247–54.

    Champion, Matthew S. “A Fuller History of Temporalities.” Past and Present 243 (2019): 255–66. 

  • ‘How did people wake up before alarm clocks?’ ABC TV, WTFAQ.

    ‘Why is 1 January New Year’s Day? The History of Timekeeping.’ ABC Radio: Nightlife, 1 Jan 2023.

    ‘Singing Clocks and Contested Temporalities.’ Forum Podcast, 28 November, 2022.

    ‘Two Truths and a Lie: The History of Time’. ABC Radio Adelaide, 27 April 2022.

    ‘The History of the Sandglass’. ABC Radio Melbourne, 24 March 2022.

    ‘The messy history of our modern, Western calendar’. The Conversation, 31 December 2021.

    ‘Ringing the bells for 700 years of recorded music’. Catholic Outlook, 28 November 2021.

    ‘Canberra churches celebrate 700th anniversary of musical clocks’. Canberra Weekly, 27 November 2021.

    ‘Mechanical musical clock strikes 700 years’. CathNews, 24 November 2021.

    ‘The 700-year history of the musical alarm clock’. ABC News, 20 April 2021.

    ‘Conflicts and power’. ABC Radio National: Counterpoint, 22 March 2021.

    ‘The History of Alarm Clocks’. 2NM Breakfast, 22 February 2021.

    ‘A history of alarm clocks (and time itself)’. ABC Radio National: Life Matters, 11 February 2021.

    ‘Wakey, Wakey: A History of Alarm Clocks and the Mechanics of Time’. The Conversation, 1 February 2021.

    ‘The history of alarm clocks and the sounds to which we wake’. ABC Radio: Overnights, 18 January 2021.