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

@urbanhistoryua.bsky.social

And this is what happened the next day...

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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...

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

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

Medievalist @kpo.bsky.social Klaus Oschema ( @dhi-paris.fr ) considered what the end(s) of time in the Middle Ages were and how this might takes us to rethink models of histories of the future.

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

Medievalist @kpo.bsky.social Klaus Oschema ( @dhi-paris.fr ) considered what the end(s) of time in the Middle Ages were and how this might takes us to rethink models of histories of the future.

Max-Quentin Bischoff (Back2theFuture & University of Antwerp) drew on the rich Tucher letters from the first half of the sixteenth century and consider the relations between futures in these letters and other types of sources such as testaments and contracts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb5F...

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...

Max-Quentin Bischoff (Back2theFuture & University of Antwerp) drew on the rich Tucher letters from the first half of the sixteenth century and consider the relations between futures in these letters and other types of sources such as testaments and contracts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zb5F...