Burrow / Wei Medieval Futures

Attitudes to the Future in the Middle Ages
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-1-84615-009-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 204 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burrow, J.A.

Wei, Ian P.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Brown, Elizabeth A R

Schmitt, Jean-Claude

Bull, Marcus

Brand, Paul A

Roberts, Phyllis B

Boitani, Piero

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Those who will call this time ancient: The Futures of Prophecy and Poetry - Piero Boitani
In perpetuum: the Rhetoric and Reality of Attempts to Control the Future in the English Medieval Common Law - Paul A Brand
The King's Conundrum: Endowing Queens and Loyal Servants, Ensuring Salvation, and Protecting the Patrimony in Fourteenth-Century FranceFrance - Elizabeth A R Brown
The French Aristocracy and the Future, c.1000-c.1200 - Marcus Bull
The Third Eye of Prudence -
Dice-games and the Blasphemy of Prediction -
Prophecy, Hagiography and St Thomas of Canterbury - Phyllis B Roberts
Appropriating the Future - Jean-Claude Schmitt
Introduction -
Predicting the Future to Judge the Present: Paris Theologians and Attitudes to the Future -

Über Autor(innen)

Bull Marcus:
MARCUS BULL is Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill