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@back2futureerc.bsky.social

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/

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Back to the Future@back2futureerc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New publication🎺 Project member Elisabeth Heijmans' "Conveying Certainty: Writing About the Future in French Long-Distance Trade Merchants’ Correspondence in the Eighteenth Century" has just been published (open access) in Enterprise & Society. For a short blog : www.uantwerpen.be/en/projects/...

Conveying Certainty: Writing About the Future in French Long-Distance Trade Merchants’ Correspondence in the Eighteenth Century | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core

Conveying Certainty: Writing About the Future in French Long-Distance Trade Merchants’ Correspondence in the Eighteenth Century

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Back to the Future@back2futureerc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New publication🎺 Project member Elisabeth Heijmans' "Conveying Certainty: Writing About the Future in French Long-Distance Trade Merchants’ Correspondence in the Eighteenth Century" has just been published (open access) in Enterprise & Society www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Conveying Certainty: Writing About the Future in French Long-Distance Trade Merchants’ Correspondence in the Eighteenth Century | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core

Conveying Certainty: Writing About the Future in French Long-Distance Trade Merchants’ Correspondence in the Eighteenth Century

cambridge.org

Back to the Future@back2futureerc.bsky.social · 7mo ago

‼️New article alert: our project colleague's article was just published! Open access and all...

UAntwerp CUH - Centre for Urban History@urbanhistoryua.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New Publication! 📚 In his new article CUH member Nicolò Zennaro explores, through the correspondence of Bindo Piaciti and Antonio Contarini, how late medieval merchants understood and managed maritime risks like piracy and privateering. 👉Find it here: ojs.oltrepagina.it/index.php/ar...

Back to the Future@back2futureerc.bsky.social · 7mo ago

On Feb 13 Jeroen Puttevils presents the project and some of its results at the Institute for Historical Research's @ihr.bsky.social Low Countries seminar. Live in London and also online! Register below.

Liesbeth Corens@onslies.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Come & learn all things #LowCountries @ihr.bsky.social this term! We've got lace! We've got the future! We've got disability history! We've got divergence! We've got museums! Everything happens in the #LowCountries! Fridays, 17:30, in person & on zoom: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #SkyStorians

IHR Low Countries programme 30 January David Hopkin: Christ in the Flemish Lace Schools: Craft, Gender and Religion 13 February Jeroen Puttevils: Back to the Future: What can we Learn about Future Thinking from Late Medieval and Early Modern Merchant Correspondences from the Low Countries 27 February Feike Dietz: Blindness, Writing and Knowing: Visually Impaired Female Authors in the Netherlands (1770-1840) 13 March Sam Geens: Reassessing the Little Divergence: Evidence from the Medieval Southern Low Countries 22 May Valika Smeulders: The Rijksmuseum: New Horizons
Back to the Future@back2futureerc.bsky.social · last yr.

Something went wrong with the message on Friday: @nicolozennaro.bsky.social and @jeroenputtevils.bsky.social published an op-ed on parallels and differences between the death of the pope and the following events in the fourteenth century and today in @demorgen.be : www.demorgen.be/meningen/wat...

Wat een nieuwe paus voor de wereld kan betekenen

Nicolò Zennaro is doctoraatsstudent en Jeroen Puttevils is hoofddocent, beiden in middeleeuwse geschiedenis, verbonden aan de Universiteit Antwerpen en het Centrum voor Stadsgeschiedenis. ‘Hoe zal de ...

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Back to the Future@back2futureerc.bsky.social · last yr.

Our team member Nicolò Zennaro will defend his PhD dissertation next week, on Friday 9 May. You can attend when you're in Belgium! He has also written a blogpost on his dissertation for the blog of the Faculty of Arts @uantwerpenfsw.bsky.social of @uantwerpen.be . blog.uantwerpen.be/bladspiegel/...

Pandemics, Natural Hazards, and Wars. Past Futures to Cope with Present-Day Disasters - bladspiegel

Nicolò Zennaro studied how medieval merchants created and used future expectations concerning their private lives and business to react to risks and disasters in late medieval Venice.

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Back to the Future@back2futureerc.bsky.social · last yr.

The passing away of Pope Francis I and the funeral that is about to take place made a few members of the Back to the Future team think about historical futures and the deaths of popes, their funerals and the ensuing conclaves.

Back to the Future@back2futureerc.bsky.social · last yr.

Medievalist Matthew Champion (Melbourne University) took us to virtual Melbourne where one can see the Triptych with the miracles of Christ (1491-1495) produced in the Low Countries. It served as starting point for a deep exploration of multiple futures in the devotio moderna

Back to the Future@back2futureerc.bsky.social · last yr.

Back in November we organized our Conference Back to the Future: Thinking about Futures in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe and Beyond. We have permission to put (most of) the presentations online. We will announce one every day from now.