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What did people in the past think about the future and how did this affect their actions in Europe, c. 1400 - 1830? Using merchant letters. ERC Starting Grant https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/projects/back-to-the-future/
November 13, 2025 at 10:56 AM
And the second one is the rich version, including the code and the data: journalofdigitalhistory.org/en/article/j...
The secularisation of future expectations in practice: An empirical study of divine appeals in Early Modern English letters
In the wake of Reinhart Koselleck’s seminal work on temporality (1979), historians studying past futures in Western Europe have argued that our current understanding of the future dates back to the pe...
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November 13, 2025 at 10:52 AM
And the second one is the rich version, including the code and the data: journalofdigitalhistory.org/en/article/j...
There are two versions (both open access): one is the pdf at the publisher www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
The secularisation of future expectations in practice: An empirical study of divine appeals in Early Modern English letters
Article The secularisation of future expectations in practice: An empirical study of divine appeals in Early Modern English letters was published on November 6, 2025 in the journal Journal of Digital ...
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November 13, 2025 at 10:52 AM
There are two versions (both open access): one is the pdf at the publisher www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
When combined, these fragments reveal how divine appeals declined unevenly - fading from everyday formulas, but persisting in moments of personal crisis, illness, or war.
November 13, 2025 at 10:52 AM
When combined, these fragments reveal how divine appeals declined unevenly - fading from everyday formulas, but persisting in moments of personal crisis, illness, or war.
Through careful cleaning, annotation and contextual study, she compiled a dataset of 7,500 references to divine entities like “God,” “Lord,” and “Jesus.”
November 13, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Through careful cleaning, annotation and contextual study, she compiled a dataset of 7,500 references to divine entities like “God,” “Lord,” and “Jesus.”
Using the Corpus of Early English Correspondence, Sara Budts combines digital text analysis and historical interpretation to measure how often—and in what ways—letter writers invoked God when talking about what was to come.
November 13, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Using the Corpus of Early English Correspondence, Sara Budts combines digital text analysis and historical interpretation to measure how often—and in what ways—letter writers invoked God when talking about what was to come.
The bibliography is definitely not extensive and reflects the research trajectories and interests of the team members. @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The bibliography is definitely not extensive and reflects the research trajectories and interests of the team members. @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social
- histories of the future/futures
- theories of history
- histories of merchants and merchant correspondences from the later Middle Ages until the modern period
- histories of risk and uncertainty
- histories of knowledge
- histories of emotions and time
- histories of time and temporality
- theories of history
- histories of merchants and merchant correspondences from the later Middle Ages until the modern period
- histories of risk and uncertainty
- histories of knowledge
- histories of emotions and time
- histories of time and temporality
October 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
- histories of the future/futures
- theories of history
- histories of merchants and merchant correspondences from the later Middle Ages until the modern period
- histories of risk and uncertainty
- histories of knowledge
- histories of emotions and time
- histories of time and temporality
- theories of history
- histories of merchants and merchant correspondences from the later Middle Ages until the modern period
- histories of risk and uncertainty
- histories of knowledge
- histories of emotions and time
- histories of time and temporality
May 4, 2025 at 10:07 AM
And this is what happened the next day...
Trump criticised after posting AI image of himself as Pope
The image, shared by White House social media accounts, comes as Catholics prepare to pick the next pontiff.
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May 4, 2025 at 10:07 AM
And this is what happened the next day...
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May 2, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Also online on our own website! www.uantwerpen.be/en/projects/...
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April 26, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Also online on our own website! www.uantwerpen.be/en/projects/...
Nicolò Zennaro is the first in line and he has found stunning details in the famous letters of the Datini company on the death of Antipope Clement VII in Avignon in 1394. This leads him to reflect on parallels to what is happening today and in the near future. medium.com/@JeroenPutte...
Returning to the Home of the Father.
This blogpost is intended for our project website Back to the Future | Back to the Future | University of Antwerp (due to technical…
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April 26, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Nicolò Zennaro is the first in line and he has found stunning details in the famous letters of the Datini company on the death of Antipope Clement VII in Avignon in 1394. This leads him to reflect on parallels to what is happening today and in the near future. medium.com/@JeroenPutte...
Reposted by Back to the Future
To end this thread and the conference: Nicolò Zennaro (Back2theFuture) presented a chapter from his PhD (which he was still writing at that time). Nicolò uses the wealth of the medieval Datini archive. The title of his talk: The Ermine’s game. Mercantile futures and warfare in late medieval Venice
Nicolò Zennaro: The Ermine’s Game: Mercantile Futures and Warfare in Late Medieval Venice
YouTube video by Jeroen Puttevils
youtu.be
April 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
To end this thread and the conference: Nicolò Zennaro (Back2theFuture) presented a chapter from his PhD (which he was still writing at that time). Nicolò uses the wealth of the medieval Datini archive. The title of his talk: The Ermine’s game. Mercantile futures and warfare in late medieval Venice
This concludes this thread. One can find all the links and the program of this past conference about histories of the future here www.uantwerpen.be/en/projects/... /fin
| Back to the Future | University of Antwerp
www.uantwerpen.be
April 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This concludes this thread. One can find all the links and the program of this past conference about histories of the future here www.uantwerpen.be/en/projects/... /fin
Nicolò’s presentation includes many images but one of them is a really modern one. Can you find it?
April 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Nicolò’s presentation includes many images but one of them is a really modern one. Can you find it?
To end this thread and the conference: Nicolò Zennaro (Back2theFuture) presented a chapter from his PhD (which he was still writing at that time). Nicolò uses the wealth of the medieval Datini archive. The title of his talk: The Ermine’s game. Mercantile futures and warfare in late medieval Venice
Nicolò Zennaro: The Ermine’s Game: Mercantile Futures and Warfare in Late Medieval Venice
YouTube video by Jeroen Puttevils
youtu.be
April 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
To end this thread and the conference: Nicolò Zennaro (Back2theFuture) presented a chapter from his PhD (which he was still writing at that time). Nicolò uses the wealth of the medieval Datini archive. The title of his talk: The Ermine’s game. Mercantile futures and warfare in late medieval Venice