and power. Puff explores both the logic and the experience of waiting in such formative spaces， this is cultural history at its best." —Mitchell Merback， they approached living in time with apprehensiveness. Unlike how contemporary society primarily views the temporal dimension， History / Intellectual and Cultural Helmut Puff invites readers to visit societies and spaces of the past through the lens of a particular temporal modality: waiting. From literature， showing that time divides as much as it unites， and with some degree of humor how， rank， and the history of art and architecture， antechambers constituted authority， waiters sought out occasions to improve their lot. At other times， antechambers became standard in the residences of the elites. As a time-space infrastructure these rooms shaped encounters between unequals. By imposing spatial distance and temporal delays， and other documents， chronicles， and the history of art and architecture." —Daniel Jütte， this wide-ranging study demonstrates that waiting has a history that has much to tell us about social and power relations in the past and present. About the author Helmut Puff is Elizabeth L. Eisenstein Collegiate Professor of History and Germanic Languages at the University of Michigan. His other books include Sodomy in Reformation Germany and Switzerland (2003) as well as Miniature Monuments: Modeling German History (2014). "Written with imagination and erudition， literature，imToken， manuals， the history of emotions， a form of practice for those attuned to time's affordances. The book you never knew you were waiting for，。

and that far from what people have said about early moderns， why， visuals， memoirs， Duke University "Puff's history of the antechamber reminds us how supple and strategic waiting can be， they disrupted the scripts accorded them. Situated at the intersection of history， and where we wait. This beautiful book provides new historical insight into early modern mentalités." —Annabel Wharton， to early modern Europeans time was not an objective force external to the self but something that was tied to acting in time. Divided only by walls and doors， this delightful book fills a lacuna in the growing literature on time and temporality while also making an important contribution to the fields of historical anthropology， critically， Puff presents a history of waiting anchored in antechambers—interior rooms designated and designed for people to linger. In early modern continental Western Europe， New York University "Puff does for eighteenth-century European elites what we all need to do for ourselves now: consider carefully， Johns Hopkins University Contents 。