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All the Time in the World : A Book of Hours by Jessica Kerwin Jenkins is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is All the Time in the World : A Book of Hours about?
Entertaining, unexpected, and full of charm, the follow-up to Jessica Kerwin Jenkins's Encyclopedia of the Exquisite presents a miscellany of engaging stories, detailing the intriguing customs, traditions, and guilty pleasures pursued throughout the ages. All the Time in the World takes its cue from an iconic component of medieval life, the book of hours, which prescribed certain readings and contemplations for certain parts of the day throughout the year. Divided into more than seventy-five entries, All the Time in the World is brimming with witty bons mots, interesting etymologies, and arresting anecdotes encompassing an array of cultures and eras. Subjects covered include the daylong ceremony of laying a royal Elizabethan tablecloth; the radicalization of sartorial chic in 1890s Paris; Nostradamus's belief in the aphrodisiac power of jam; the sensuous practice of sniffing incense in fifteenth-century Japan; the American fascination with flaming desserts; the short-lived artistic discipline of “lumia,” or visual music; the evolution of coffee from a religious ritual to a forbidden delight in the Middle East; Henriette d'Angeville's fearless and wine-fueled ascent of Mont Blanc; t
Who reads All the Time in the World : A Book of Hours?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jessica Kerwin Jenkins
- Publisher
- New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780385535427
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Folklore, Anthropology, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.86 / 5 (148 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14