Prognostication in the Medieval World
A Handbook
Two opposing views of the future in the Middle Ages dominate recent historical scholarship. According to one opinion, medieval societies were expecting the near end of the world and therefore had no concept of the future. According to the other opinion, the expectation of the near end created a drive to change the world for the better and thus for innovation. Close inspection of the history of prognostication reveals the continuous attempts and multifold methods to recognize and interpret God's will, the prodigies of nature, and the patterns of time. That proves, on the one hand, the constant human uncertainty facing the contingencies of the…
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Weitere Autoren: Lehner, Hans-Christian (Hrsg.) / Heiduk, Matthias (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-11-049847-9
- EAN: 9783110498479
- Produktnummer: 34922085
- Verlag: De Gruyter
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 1039 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 0 KB
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Matthias Heiduk, Klaus Herbers, Hans-Christian Lehner, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
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