Medieval futures : attitudes to the future in the Middle Ages /: attitudes to the future in the Middle Ages. (2000)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by J.A. Burrow and Ian P. Wei.
• Other Names: Burrow, J. A (John Anthony); Wei, Ian P
• Contents: Pt. 1. Thinking about the future. Appropriating the future / Jean-Claude Schmitt ; Predicting the future to judge the present: Paris theologians and attitudes to the future / Ian P. Wei ; The third eye of Prudence / John Burrow -- pt. 2. Prophesying futures. Those who will call this time ancient: the futures of prophecy and poetry / Piero Boitani ; Prophecy, hagiography and St Thomas of Canterbury / Phyllis B. Roberts -- pt. 3. Providing for futures. The french aristocracy and the future, c. 1000-c.1200 / Marcus Bull ; In perpetuum: the rhetoric and reality of attempts to control the future in the English medieval common law / Paul Brand ; The king's conundrum: endowing queens and loyal servants, ensuring salvation, and protecting the patrimony in fourteenth century France / Elizabeth A.R. Brown ; Dice-games and the blasphemy of prediction / Rhiannon Purdie.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Boydell Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Extent: 1 online resource (204 pages)
• Subjects: 303.49; Forecasting -- History -- To 1500; Future, The, in popular culture -- Europe -- History -- To 1500; Civilization, Medieval; Toekomst; Zukunftserwartung; Prophetie; Prophetie; Zukunftserwartung; Civilization, Medieval; Forecasting; Future, The, in popular culture; Bristol <1997>; Europe; Kongress -- Bristol -- 1997; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781846150098; 1846150094
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