Is modernity synonymous with progress? Did the Renaissance
really break with the cyclical, agrarian time of the Middle Ages,
inaugurating a new concept of irreversible time in a secular
culture defined by development? How does methodology affect
scholarly responses to the idea of the future in the past? This
collection of interdisciplinary essays from the fields of literary
criticism, cultural studies, politics and intellectual history
offers new answers to these commonplace questions. They explore
elite and popular culture, women and men's experiences, and the
encounter between East and West, providing 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,
this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern
texts and insights into popular culture.
With a foreword by Peter Burke.
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