The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

List of Figures Foreword: The History of the Future, 1350-2000, Peter Burke Introduction, Andrea Brady and Emily Butterworth 1. In Pursuit of the Millennia: Robert Crowley's Changing Concept of Apocalypticism, A. Wade Razzi 2. Montaigne's Forays into the Undiscovered Country, Richard Scholar 3. 'My Promise Sent Unto Myself': Futurity and the Language of Obligation in Sidney's Old Arcadia, J.K. Barret 4. Turkish Futures: Prophecy and the Other, Brinda Charry 5. 'Provide for the Future, and Times Succeeding': Walter Ralegh and the Progress of Time, Andrew Hiscock 6. France Antarctique and France Equinoctiale: Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century French Representations of a Colonial Future in Brazil, Michael Harrigan 7. Planning Ahead: A Future for Old Age in Dialogue of Comfort, Henry IV Parts One and Two and All's Well That Ends Well, Nina Taunton 8. The Future Now: Chance, Time and Natural Divination in the Thought of Francis Bacon, A. P. Langman 9. Prophetic Architecture: Agrippa d'Aubigné in Paris, Phillip John Usher 10. Astrology, Ritual and Revolution in the Works of Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639), Peter J. Forshaw 11. Mocking the Future in French Renaissance Mock-Prognostications, Hugh Roberts 12. 'Meteorologies and Extravagant Speculations': The Future Legends of Early Modern English Natural Philosophy, Rob Iliffe Notes on Contributors Index