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Tables of Contents for Medieval Futures
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
 
List of Contributors
viii
 
Introduction
ix
 
Ian P. Wei
I Thinking about the Future
Appropriating the Future
3
16
Jean-Claude Schmitt
Peregrine Rand
Predicting the Future to Judge the Present: Paris Theologians and Attitudes to the Future
19
18
Ian P. Wei
The Third Eye of Prudence
37
14
John Burrow
II Prophesying Futures
Those who will call this time ancient: The Futures of Prophecy and Poetry
51
16
Piero Boitani
Prophecy, Hagiography and St Thomas of Canterbury
67
16
Phyllis B. Roberts
III Providing for Futures
The French Aristocracy and the Future, c.1000-c.1200
83
18
Marcus Bull
In perpetuum: the Rhetoric and Reality of Attempts to Control the Future in the English Medieval Common Law
101
14
Paul Brand
The King's Conundrum: Endowing Queens and Loyal Servants, Ensuring Salvation, and Protecting the Patrimony in Fourteenth-Century France
115
52
Elizabeth A. R. Brown
Dice-games and the Blasphemy of Prediction
167
18
Rhiannon Purdie
Index
185