Del i serien Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience

Pursuing Hope in the Premodern World

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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This open access book provides the first scholarly account of the role of hope and hopefulness from the perspective of social and cultural life in ancient, medieval and early modern societies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-07-19
Mått148 x 210 x 24 mm
Vikt556 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Studies in the History of Experience
Antal sidor327
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031854057

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1. Hope and Futurity: Emotions, Strategies and Virtues in the Premodern World.- 2. From Superstition to Agency: Ancient and Modern Approaches to Hope.- 3. Searching for Hope in Roman Antiquity: Changing Patterns of Discourses and Agency.- 4. Is there Hope for the Barbarian? Imagining Outgroup Futurities in Ammianus Marcellinus and Eunapius of Sardis.- 5. Lost Hopes? Parental Hope and the Death of Children in Ancient Rome.- 6. Looking Back for Hope: Patterns of Salvation and Positive Performances in the Third-Century Synagogue at Dura Europos .- 7. caelestia regna petisti: Seeking Hope in Late Antique Funerary Verse Inscription.- 8. Family Crises and the Construction of Hope: The Case of Michael Psellos.- 9. Earthly Ambitions and Otherworldly Hopes in Twelfth-Century Constantinople: Nicholas Kallikles’ Funerary Epigrams for the Komnenian Elite.- 10. Heretical Hope: Striving for Salvation and the Good Death in Medieval Languedoc.- 11. Latter-day Lazaruses: Hoping to Avoid Death in the Late Middle Ages.- 12. Infirmity, Hope, and Lived Religion in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe .- 13. Hope, Nostalgia and the Use of Emotions in Early Modern Medicine.- 14. Constructing and Performing Hope in the Premodern World.