Ebook: The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

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 Ralegh 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 1 and 2 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'Aubigné 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.