Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks is Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the long-time Senior Editor of The Sixteenth Century Journal, and the author or editor of more than 30 books that have appeared in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Chinese, Turkish, and Korean.

Scholars, educators, and students in the fields of time studies, gender and women’s studies, and early modern literary and cultural studies will find this volume to bean essential critical companion.W. Scott Howard, Professor and Editor, Denver Quarterly and FIVES, Department of English & Literary Arts, University of Denver, USA, in KRON 25.1 (2025).

• Notes on Contributors, Introduction , PART I Temporality and Materiality, PART II Frameworks and Taxonomy of Time, PART III Embodied Time, Index