Chapter 1 Time in the Making: Why All the Fuss About Time? On Time, the Unknown, and Fascination

Chapter 2 The Old Made New: Medieval Repurposing of Prophecies

Chapter 3 ‘Wunschzeit’ Jerusalem: Rethinking the Distinction Between Time and Space in Medieval Utopias

Chapter 4 Living on the Edge of Time: Temporal Patterns and Irregularities in Byzantine Historical Apocalypses

Chapter 5 Unknown or Uncertain? Astrologers, the Church, and the Future in the Late Middle Ages

Chapter 6 ‘From the Unknown to the Known and Backwards:’ Representing and Presenting Remote Time in Nineteenth-Century Palaeontology

Chapter 7 Introducing Time to Ethnographic Displays: Narrative Strategies of Revealing the Unknown in German Ethnological Museums

Chapter 8 “God’s Time Is the Best:” The Fascination with Unknown Time in Urban Transport in Lagos

Chapter 9 Perpetual Wanderers—Timeless Heroes: Gypsies in European Musical Culture

Chapter 10 The Present: An ‘Unknown Time’ in the German Kaiserreich around 1900

Chapter 12 Suspense in the Cinema: Knowledge and Time

Chapter 13 Futurology, Allegory, Time Travel: What Makes Science Fiction Fascinating