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The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe
Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
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...
Published November 1st 2009 by Routledge