The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

This collection of interdisciplinary essays from the fields of literary criticism, cultural studies, politics and intellectual history offers new answers to these commonplace questions. These essays explore both elite and popular culture, women and men's experiences, and the encounter between East and West. They provide 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, these essays provide new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture.

List of Figures	p. vii
Foreword: The History of the Future, 1350-2000	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
In Pursuit of the Millennia: Robert Crowley's Changing Concept of Apocalypticism	p. 19
Montaigne's Forays into the Undiscovered Country	p. 39
'My Promise Sent Unto Myself': Futurity and the Language of Obligation in Sidney's Old Arcadia	p. 54
Turkish Futures: Prophecy and the Other	p. 73
'Provide for the Future, and Times Succeeding': Walter Ralegh and the Progress of Time	p. 90
France Antarctique and France Equinoctiale: Sixteenth-and Early Seventeenth-Century French Representations of a Colonial Future in Brazil	p. 110
Planning Ahead: A Future for Old Age in Dialogue of Comfort, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 and All's Well That Ends Well	p. 126
The Future Now: Chance, Time and Natural Divination in the Thought of Francis Bacon	p. 142
Prophetic Architecture: Agrippa d'Aubigné in Paris	p. 159
Astrology, Ritual and Revolution in the Works of Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639)	p. 181
Mocking the Future in French Renaissance Mock-Prognostications	p. 198
'Meteorologies and Extravagant Speculations': The Future Legends of Early Modern English Natural Philosophy	p. 215
Contributors	p. 235
Index	p. 239
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