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Conclusion

Time and the Renaissance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2021

Nicholas Scott Baker
Nicholas Scott Baker
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Macquarie University
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I have argued through this book that between the mid-fifteenth and mid-sixteenth centuries, a new concept of the future materialized and cohered in Renaissance Italian culture. In contrast to the eschatological vision of Christian theology, the claims of various divinatory techniques, and the everyday, prudential sense of the future with which Europeans had operated for centuries, this new conception held that time-yet-to-come was unknown and unknowable and that the world of tomorrow could potentially be very different to that of yesterday and today.

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In Fortune's Theater
Financial Risk and the Future in Renaissance Italy
 , pp. 222 - 227
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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