Articles > Academic magazines > Academic magazines > The Modern Language Review articles > January 2003

Article: Medieval Futures: Attitudes to the Future in the Middle Ages.(Book Review)

Article from:
The Modern Language Review
Article date:
January 1, 2003
Author:
Copyright

Medieval Futures: Attitudes to the Future in the Middle Ages. Ed. by J. A. BURROW and IAN P. WEI. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. 2000. xiv+188 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $90. ISBN 0-85115-779-3.

Quite apart from the quality of the individual contributions, what is really interesting about this book is the premiss on which it has been compiled. The idea of the future is relevant to every age, a point which is well made by Jean-Claude Schmitt in 'Appropriating the Future', the first essay in the collection. The way in which individuals and groups within a society deal with their anxieties about the time to come offers an invaluable insight into the way in which they think ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:

Article: Dreaming the middle ages: American neomedievalism ...
Interactions;  March 22, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... return has specifically been back to the Middle Ages, I believe Umberto Eco's assessment ... is: why is America dreaming of the Middle Ages? Thus, this study will offer two Hollywood ... Eco pointed out, this return to the Middle Ages has become an "obsessive" topic ...

Article: The strange allure of the Middle Ages
The Independent - London;  May 28, 1995 ;     700+ words ...THE Middle Ages are back. With their stained-glass ... neo-medievalism. Of course, the Middle Ages never really went away. In every century ... remade. One hundred years ago the Middle Ages - all blessed damozels and frizz ...

Article: The Middle Ages After the Middle Ages ...
The Modern Language Review;  April 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...The Middle Ages After the Middle Ages in the English-Speaking World. Ed. by MARIE-FRANCOISE ... disparate nature of this literature. As a field the study of the Middle Ages spans a thousand years, comprising many languages, cultures ...

Article: AT 10, MIDDLE AGES HAS REASON TO ...
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  May 25, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... cases or 471.3 million six-packs. Middle Ages Brewing Co. rolled out its first beer ... said. "This was a beer they liked." Middle Ages opened in May 1995 amid a national wave ... opened and closed in Syracuse since Middle Ages started. But they've made it work ...

Article: COLUMN: Return to the Middle Ages
University Wire;  May 3, 2007 ;     523 words ... ... my professors this semester described the Middle Ages as a period of decay. Each time they did ... annoyed because I find the history of the Middle Ages truly fascinating. The Middle Ages does not consist only of the Black Death ...

Article: Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, ...
The Christian Century;  January 23, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the ... BEGINNING of the third section of Mysteries of the Middle Ages Thomas Cahill states, "The Middle Ages are a great jumble. As I have put my manuscript ...

Article: WILL 'MIDDLE AGES' BLOSSOM AFTER LIMITED RUN RUNS ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  September 3, 1992 ;     700+ words ... ... this real?" That is the mantra of "Middle Ages," which, despite the title's implication ... by those viewers who happen to find "Middle Ages" captivating. That's because it ... Arresting Behavior," to the sublime "Middle Ages." Even when one of these series proves ...

Encyclopedia entry: Middle Ages
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      700+ words ...Middle Ages period in Western European history that followed ... largely from the turbulent events of the Early Middle Ages and the rebirth of culture in the later years. The importance of the Middle Ages has been increasingly recognized as scholarship ...

 
 
Newsweek Harper's Magazine The Washington Post Chicago Tribune Crain's Chicago Business PRNewswire Pediatric News The Nation Advertising Age The Economist (US) A FREE trial gives you access to over 80 million articles! Access over 6,500 publications with a FREE trial!

Find articles, research, and archives