Journal of Early Modern Studies, n. 6 (2017), pp. 7-8 
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13128/JEMS-2279-7149-20385

ISSN 2279-7149 (online)
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2017 Firenze University Press

Contents

Editorial 9
Alessandro Arcangeli and Anu Korhonen

Part One

Reading Temporalities in History

Reading Time: The Act of Reading and Early Modern Time Perceptions 17
Alessandro Arcangeli

Temporalities and History in the Renaissance 39
Étienne Bourdon

‘the several hours of the day had variety of employments assigned to them’: 
Women’s Timekeeping in Early Modern England 61

Anu Korhonen

Part Two

Case Studies

Marking the New Year: Dated Objects and the Materiality of Time in 
Early Modern England 89

Sophie Cope

Time Management and Autonomous Subjectivity: Catherine Talbot, 
Politeness, and Self-Discipline as a Practice of Freedom 113

Soile Ylivuori

Killing Time: Ennui in Eighteenth-Century English Culture 133
Marjo Kaartinen



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(Re)Thinking Time: Giordano Bruno and Michel de Montaigne 157
Rachel Ashcroft

Time and Exemplarity 183
Anne Eriksen

Appendix

Time, Tempo, Tense 207
Paola Pugliatti

Contributors  233