Not exactly what they mentioned, but check this out [1]. It talks about the perception of time in the middle ages, and how merchant time slowly substituted the impractical notions of church time. A professor of mine who was talking about medieval paintings and their ideas of space and time suggested this paper.

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/053901847000900411 - Church Time and Merchant Time in the Middle Ages - Jacques Le Goff