The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe by Brady, Andrea -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Contents Figures Foreword

THE KOSELLECK-HÖLSCHER THESIS CRITIQUE THE LANGUAGE OF FUTURES IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE DOMAINS OF A PRAGMATIC FUTUROLOGY NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY

Introduction

DEFINING MODERNITY: BACK TO THE FUTURE CONTINUITY, CONTINGENCY AND CHANCE: FUTURE STATES THE END TIMES: NO FUTURE HISTORIA MAGISTRA VITAE: THE PAST AS FUTURE PROGNOSTICATION AND NATURAL LAW: THE FUTURE AND SCIENCE NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY

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

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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