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Medieval Futures : Attitudes to the Future in the Middle Ages.
"Medieval Futures" explores the rich variety of ways in which medieval people imagined the future, from the prophetic anticipation of the end of the world to the mundane expectation that the world would continue indefinitely, permitting ordinary human plans and provisions. The articles exp...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Contributors; Introduction; I Thinking about the Future; Appropriating the Future; Predicting the Future to Judge the Present: Paris Theologians and Attitudes to the Future; The Third Eye of Prudence; II Prophesying Futures; Those who will call this time ancient: The Futures of Prophecy and Poetry; Prophecy, Hagiography and St Thomas of Canterbury; III Providing for Futures; The French Aristocracy and the Future, c.1000-c.1200; In perpetuum: the Rhetoric and Reality of Attempts to Control the Future in the English Medieval Common Law.