Experiencing Time in the Early Modern Hispanic World

-This is the first book to focus on how experiences of time in Spain and New Spain are shaped in the framework of shifting imitatio Christi traditions, thus showing the ways in which religious practices condition fluctuating temporal sensibilities.

-At the intersection of Hispanic literature, colonial studies, and the history of Christianity, it offers a culturally and historically contextualized understanding of time schemes while paying close attention to their experiential dimensions.

-It is the first book to bring together current scholarship on the phenomenological dimensions of time, the history of changing temporal regimes, Spanish mystical thought, and the development of millenarian and post-millenarian currents in colonial Mexico.

-It provides a sustained analysis of how Saint Augustine's seminal definition of time is transformed in early modern Spain and New Spain, thus offering insight on the philosophical foundations of the fluid time schemes examined.

-It links the burgeoning of new forms of subjectivity to religion-centered redefinitions of time.