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ISBN 10: 041599540X 

ISBN 13: 9780415995405

Author: Andrea Brady, Emily Butterworth, Peter Burke

Is modernity synonymous with progress? Did the Renaissance really break with the cyclical, agrarian time of the Middle Ages, inaugurating a new concept of irreversible time in a secular culture defined by development? How does methodology affect scholarly responses to the idea of the future in the past? This collection of interdisciplinary essays from the fields of literary criticism, cultural studies, politics and intellectual history offers new answers to these commonplace questions. They explore elite and popular culture, women and men’s experiences, and the encounter between East and West, providing a comparative view on the range of personal, political and social practices with which early modern people planned for, imagined, manipulated or even rejected the future. Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. With a foreword by Peter Burke.

Table of contents:

1 In Pursuit of the Millennia
PROPHECY, MILLENARIANISM AND REFORM
ROBERT CROWLEY’S EARLY MILLENARIANISM: REFORM AS PRECURSOR TO THE MILLENNIUM
CROWLEY, EGALITARIANISM AND REFORM
CROWLEY, PUNISHMENT, AND THE MILLENNIUM
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY

2 Montaigne’s Forays into the Undiscovered Country
FUTURES OF THE PAST
FUTURES AND AFTERLIVES
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY

3 ‘My Promise Sent Unto Myself’
SUSPICIOUS TIMING
THE TIMING OF COMMITMENT
FACING THE FUTURE
CONCLUSION: OPEN ENDINGS
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY

4 Turkish Futures
MEMORY AND THE FUTURE: THE CAPTIVE’S STORY
JOHN FOXE AND THE TURKS
CONCLUSION
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY

5 ‘Provide for the Future, and Times Succeeding’
MULTIPLYING FUTURES
RALEGH AND TIME MANAGEMENT
RALEGH AND THE EARLY MODERN READER
RALEGH AND ADMONITION
NEW WORLDS—PRESENT AND FUTURE
RALEGH’S LEGACIES
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY

6 France Antarctique and France Equinoctiale
THE PURGATION OF THE KINGDOM
THE AMERICAS: A DIVERSITY OF VISIONS
MARANHÃO: HARANGUES DES SAUVAGES
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY

7 Planning Ahead
PROJECTIONS INTO THE FUTURE (1): THE LIFE TO COME
PROJECTIONS INTO THE FUTURE (2): THIS LIFE
THE INHERITANCE OF GRACE. ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY

8 The Future Now
BACON, CALVIN AND THE REJECTION OF DETERMINISM
BACON, CHANCE AND DISCOVERY
BACON, NEW ATLANTIS AND NATURAL DIVINATION
A NEW NATURAL DIVINATION
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY

9 Prophetic Architecture
BUILDING BELIEF
GOD IN PARIS
SATAN IN PARIS
ON THE NATURE OF PROPHECY
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY

10 Astrology, Ritual and Revolution in the Works of Tommaso Campanella (1568–1639)
TOMMASO CAMPANELLA
GREAT CONJUNCTIONS
A FATAL YEAR
PROPHETIC ARTICLES AND THE CITY OF THE SUN
A RITUAL FOR THE POPE
ECLOGUE FOR THE DAUPHIN
CONCLUSION
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY

11 Mocking the Future in French Renaissance Mock-Prognostications
TRUISMS, NONSENSE AND ENIGMAS IN RENAISSANCE MOCK-PROGNOSTICATIONS
THE READERSHIP OF ALMANACS AND MOCK-PROGNOSTICATIONS
ASTROLOGICAL CONTROVERSY IN EARLY SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE: NOËL-LÉON MORGARD
SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH MOCK-PROGNOSTICATIONS
CONCLUSION: MOCK-PROGNOSTICATIONS AND THE WANING OF THE CARNIVALESQUE
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY

12 ‘Meteorologies and Extravagant Speculations’
REALIZING THE BACONIAN PROJECT
FANCIES OF FLIGHT
ARTIFICIAL MUSCLES
ALL INVENTION: TECHNO-SCIENTIFIC UTOPIA AS FICTION
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY

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