📯Publication alert! What can 7,500 divine references in early modern letters tell us about how people imagined their futures? And how do you measure something as elusive as belief?

Today @nicolozennaro.bsky.social presented his paper “Credo per la grazia di Dio farei bene”. Future thinking and knowledge of a risk (in)expert in late medieval Venice at the LVI Settimana di Studi
Gestione del rischio, insolvenza e bancarotta nel mondo premoderno (secc. XIII-XVIII) in Prato

This afternoon @nicolozennaro.bsky.social successfully defended his PhD dissertation “1400: Un Fortunoso Anno. Future Thinking and Risk Late Medieval Venice” and now goes through life as Dr Zennaro. @erc.europa.eu @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social @uantwerpen.be

@kpo.bsky.social also drew parallels with apocalypticism in contemporary culture.

Or how future thinking played a role in labour contracts in the Tucher business:

Through a focus on education, Max was able to show what the senior members of the family had in mind for the juniors, or not...

Penelope has a book out: www.whsmith.co.uk/Product/Pene...

Sara used a very interesting visualisation to show per domain (the subject of the timed statement in the letters) how far these went into the historical past or future.

Sara Budts (Back2TheFuture, University of Antwerp) has shown us how to learn more about temporal awareness in the fifteenth- and sixteenth century letters of the Cely and Johnson families by annotating temporal markers in these large correspondences.