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Back to the Future @back2futureerc.bsky.social · 20h

The bibliography is definitely not extensive and reflects the research trajectories and interests of the team members. @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social

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Back to the Future @back2futureerc.bsky.social · 20h

- 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

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Back to the Future @back2futureerc.bsky.social · 20h

We have just put the Zotero bibliography of the Back2theFuture project online. www.uantwerpen.be/en/projects/... Throughout the project we have built this bibliography which we hope can serve the scholarly community #skystorians interested in the following subjects:

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Back to the Future @back2futureerc.bsky.social · May 14

Today @nicolozennaro.bsky.social presented his paper “Credo per la grazia di Dio farei bene”. Future thinking and knowledge of a risk (in)expert in late medieval Venice at the LVI Settimana di Studi
Gestione del rischio, insolvenza e bancarotta nel mondo premoderno (secc. XIII-XVIII) in Prato

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Back to the Future @back2futureerc.bsky.social · May 9

This afternoon @nicolozennaro.bsky.social successfully defended his PhD dissertation “1400: Un Fortunoso Anno. Future Thinking and Risk Late Medieval Venice” and now goes through life as Dr Zennaro. @erc.europa.eu @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social @uantwerpen.be

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Back to the Future @back2futureerc.bsky.social · May 7

Today the Conclave starts in the Sistine Chapel. In a previous post on our blog, @nicolozennaro.bsky.social & @jeroenputtevils.bsky.social wrote about the conclave of 1394. Jeroen now moves to that of 1559 and to the subject of betting on the next pope.

The Antwerp Bourse

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Back to the Future @back2futureerc.bsky.social · May 4

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Back to the Future @back2futureerc.bsky.social · May 4

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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Back to the Future @back2futureerc.bsky.social · May 4

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 · May 2

Confirm your presence at the public defense by sending an e-mail to [email protected]

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Back to the Future @back2futureerc.bsky.social · May 2

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 · Apr 26

Also online on our own website! www.uantwerpen.be/en/projects/...

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Back to the Future @back2futureerc.bsky.social · Apr 26

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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Back to the Future @back2futureerc.bsky.social · Apr 26

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.

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Back to the Future @back2futureerc.bsky.social · Apr 17

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

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Back to the Future @back2futureerc.bsky.social · Apr 17

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

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Back to the Future @back2futureerc.bsky.social · Apr 17

Nicolò’s presentation includes many images but one of them is a really modern one. Can you find it?

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Back to the Future @back2futureerc.bsky.social · Apr 17

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

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Back to the Future @back2futureerc.bsky.social · Apr 10

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.

Klaus Oschema: After the End: Medieval Ideas about the Limits of the Future

YouTube video by Jeroen Puttevils

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Back to the Future @back2futureerc.bsky.social · Apr 10

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

Back to the Future @back2futureerc.bsky.social · Apr 10

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.

Klaus Oschema: After the End: Medieval Ideas about the Limits of the Future

YouTube video by Jeroen Puttevils

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Back to the Future @back2futureerc.bsky.social · Apr 1

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...

Max-Quentin Bischoff: Letters, Contracts and Testaments: The Future Horizon of a Family Firm

YouTube video by Jeroen Puttevils

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Back to the Future @back2futureerc.bsky.social · Apr 1

Or how future thinking played a role in labour contracts in the Tucher business:

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Back to the Future @back2futureerc.bsky.social · Apr 1

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...

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Back to the Future @back2futureerc.bsky.social · Apr 1

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...

Max-Quentin Bischoff: Letters, Contracts and Testaments: The Future Horizon of a Family Firm

YouTube video by Jeroen Puttevils

www.youtube.com

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