Early Modern Histories of Time examines how chronological modes intrinsic to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries shaped the thought-worlds of those living during this time and the ways in which these temporally indigenous models can productively influence our own working concepts of historical period.

Kristen Poole is the Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of English Renaissance Literature at the University of Delaware. Her previous books include Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England and Radical Religion from Shakespeare to Milton: Figures of Nonconformity in Early Modern England. Owen Williams is Associate Director for Scholarly Programs, Folger Institute, Folger Shakespeare Library.