The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe 0203864158, 041599540X, 9780415995405, 9780203864159

In pursuit of the millennia: Robert Crowley's changing concept of apocalypticism / A. Wade Razzi -- Montaigne'

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English Pages (xx, 242 pages) : illustrations Year 2010;2009

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
0203864158, 041599540X, 9780415995405, 9780203864159

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Table of contents :
In pursuit of the millennia: Robert Crowley's changing concept of apocalypticism / A. Wade Razzi --
Montaigne's forays into the undiscovered country / Richard Scholar --
'My promise sent unto myself': futurity and the language of obligation in Sidney's Old Arcadia / J.K. Barret --
Turkish futures: prophecy and the other / Brinda Charry --
'Provide for the future, and times succeeding': Walter Ralegh and the progress of time / Andrew Hiscock --
France Antarctique and France Equinoctiale: sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century French representations of a colonial future in Brazil / Michael Harrigan --
Planning ahead: a future for old age in Dialogue of comfort, Henry IV parts 1 and 2 and All's well that ends well / Nina Taunton --
The future now: chance, time and natural divination in the thought of Francis Bacon / A.P. Langman --
Prophetic architecture: Agrippa d'Aubigné in Paris / Phillip John Usher --
Astrology, ritual and revolution in the works of Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) / Peter J. Forshaw --
Mocking the future in French Renaissance mock-prognostications / Hugh Roberts --
'Meteorologies and extravagant speculations': the future legends of early modern English natural philosophy / Rob Iliffe.

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