Medieval futures

Titel: Medieval futures : attitudes to the future in the Middle Ages / ed. by J.A. Burrow ...
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Veröffentlicht: Woodbridge : Boydell Press, 2000
Umfang: XIV, 188 S.
Format: E-Book
Sprache: Englisch
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Vorliegende Ausgabe: Online-Ausg.: 2003. - Online-Ressource.
ISBN: 0585444307 (Sekundärausgabe)
Bemerkung: Inhalt: 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