PET MINUTA DO PONOĆI: STUDIJA O MEĐUOVISNOSTI VREMENA, OKOLIŠA I LJUDI U RANOM NOVOM VIJEKU NA PROSTORU IZMEĐU MURE I DRAVE
FIVE MINUTES TILL MIDNIGHT: A STUDY OF INTERDEPENDENCE OF TIME, ENVIRONMENT AND PEOPLE IN THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD BETWEEN THE RIVERS MURA AND DRAVA

Summary/Abstract: After examining the research interests of environmental historians, one come to a conclusion about their orientation in the exploration of the environment with an emphasis on structured, chronologically displayed results. Approaches to environmental history topics tend to use time frames in their narrative, but neglecting, as it seems, inevitable dimension of environmental history - time. Interpretation and construction, and the very concepts of time depend on science to which they belong, as well as on the research subject. The dualism of temporal concepts is known to ecohistorians (Robert Delort, François Walter, Ian Simmons) who speak of linear and cyclic time but concepts of time namely the interdependence of time, the environment and people are left unexpored. The research area in this paper is the current Regional Park Mura-Drava. This area needs, along with previous scientific research activities, additional guidance in the research, leading to the concepts of time as the indispensable component of environmental history. The aim is, by using comparative analysis and analytical methods of discourse, to show how concepts and perceptions of time can be used in environmental history. The foundation work will be the sources of the Early Modern Period (Pavao Ritter Vitezović’s calendars, Sibila, Ivan Pergošić’s Decretum) which originate from the Pannonian area. They will indicate a relationship between man and nature, and thus the interdependence of time and the environment in the Early Modern Period. Furthermore, it will be shown how the differences in time perceptions can lead to differences in environment intervention and how early modern literary sources can affect synchronization of physical time and nature time.

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