Medieval futures : attitudes to the future in the Middle Ages /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Burrow, J. A. (John Anthony), Wei, Ian P.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2000.
Subjects:	Forecasting > History > To 1500. Future, The, in popular culture > Europe > History > To 1500. Civilization, Medieval.

Table of 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.