Medieval futures: attitudes to the future in the Middle Ages
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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY Boydell Press 2000
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 188 Seiten) 24 cm
ISBN:0585444307