The uses of the future in early modern Europe

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Routledge
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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 Raleigh 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 one and two 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'Aubign 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New York
Series
Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture -- 12

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Dewey Decimal Class
820.9/003
Library of Congress
PR421 .U84 2010, PR421.U84 2010, PR421 .U84 2010eb

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Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24060257M
ISBN 10
041599540X
ISBN 13
9780415995405
LCCN
2009021886
OCLC/WorldCat
654780999, 311758766

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