Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Contributors viii
5. Introduction ix
6. I THINKING ABOUT THE FUTURE
7. Appropriating the Future 1
8. Predicting the Future to Judge the Present: Paris Theologians and Attitudes to the Future 19
9. The Third Eye of Prudence 37
10. II PROPHESYING FUTURES
11. Those who will call this time ancient: The Futures of Prophecy and Poetry 49
12. Prophecy, Hagiography and St Thomas of Canterbury 67
13. III PROVIDING FOR FUTURES
14. The French Aristocracy and the Future, c.1000–c.1200 81
15. In perpetuum: the Rhetoric and Reality of Attempts to Control the Future in the English Medieval Common Law 101
16. The King’s Conundrum: Endowing Queens and Loyal Servants, Ensuring Salvation, and Protecting the Patrimony in Fourteenth-Century France 115
17. Dice-games and the Blasphemy of Prediction 167
18. Index 185