Medieval Futures: Attitudes to the Future in the Middle Ages

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Attitudes to the Future in the Middle Ages

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Edited by J. A. Burrow, University of Bristol, Ian P. Wei, University of Bristol

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: March 2023
Print publication year:: 2000
Online ISBN:: 9781846150098
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781846150098

Subjects:: History, Regional History after 1500

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Studies of varied ways in which medieval people imagined the future, reasons behind such representations, and the implications for an understanding of medieval society as a whole.

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Attitudes to the Future in the Middle Ages

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Preface
pp vii-vii

List of Contributors
pp viii-viii

Introduction
pp ix-xiv

I - Thinking About the Future
pp 1-2

Appropriating the Future
pp 3-18

Predicting the Future to Judge the Present: Paris Theologians and Attitudes to the Future
pp 19-36

The Third Eye of Prudence
pp 37-48

II - Prophesying Futures
pp 49-50

Those who will call this time ancient: The Futures of Prophecy and Poetry: In memoriam Howard H. Schless
pp 51-66

Prophecy, Hagiography and St Thomas of Canterbury
pp 67-80

III - Providing for Futures
pp 81-82

The French Aristocracy and the Future, c.1000–c.1200
pp 83-100

In perpetuum: the Rhetoric and Reality of Attempts to Control the Future in the English Medieval Common Law
pp 101-114

The King’s Conundrum: Endowing Queens and Loyal Servants, Ensuring Salvation, and Protecting the Patrimony in Fourteenth-Century France
pp 115-166

Dice-games and the Blasphemy of Prediction
pp 167-184

Index
pp 185-188

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