Medieval Debates on Foreknowledge: Future Contingents, Prophecy, and Divination
This volume offers a comprehensive examination of medieval conceptions of foreknowledge—understood both as divine prescience and as the human capacity to anticipate future events—across a range of intellectual traditions. It investigates key themes such as future contingents, prophetic discourse (bo...
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| description | This volume offers a comprehensive examination of medieval conceptions of foreknowledge—understood both as divine prescience and as the human capacity to anticipate future events—across a range of intellectual traditions. It investigates key themes such as future contingents, prophetic discourse (both divinely inspired and natural), divinatory dreams, eschatology, scientific prognostication (in astrology and medicine), and conjectural disciplines such as geomancy, physiognomy, meteorology, and magic. Through historical reconstructions and doctrinal analyses, the contributions illuminate the theoretical frameworks and distinctive positions advanced by medieval authors within diverse cultural and scholarly contexts. Building on an extensive body of prior research, the volume documents the multiplicity of medieval strategies for engaging with the future, thereby challenging the historiographical assumption that the notion of an open and indeterminate future emerged only in the Modern period. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1763532026-05-12T15:57:52Z Medieval Debates on Foreknowledge: Future Contingents, Prophecy, and Divination Palazzo, Alessandro Bonini, Francesca Cerrito, Amalia Arabic Philosophy Astrology Divination Foreknowledge Future Contingents Medieval Philosophy Prognostication THEMAQDHF This volume offers a comprehensive examination of medieval conceptions of foreknowledge—understood both as divine prescience and as the human capacity to anticipate future events—across a range of intellectual traditions. It investigates key themes such as future contingents, prophetic discourse (both divinely inspired and natural), divinatory dreams, eschatology, scientific prognostication (in astrology and medicine), and conjectural disciplines such as geomancy, physiognomy, meteorology, and magic. Through historical reconstructions and doctrinal analyses, the contributions illuminate the theoretical frameworks and distinctive positions advanced by medieval authors within diverse cultural and scholarly contexts. Building on an extensive body of prior research, the volume documents the multiplicity of medieval strategies for engaging with the future, thereby challenging the historiographical assumption that the notion of an open and indeterminate future emerged only in the Modern period. Published 2026-05-12T15:57:44Z 2026-05-12T15:57:44Z 2026-03-30 book 978-2-503-61981-1 978-2-503-61982-8 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/176353 eng Rencontres de Philosophie Médiévale image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503619811-1 https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RPM-EB.5.150732 Brepols 10.1484/M.RPM-EB.5.150732 10.1484/M.RPM-EB.5.150732 337417f5-5e42-49d3-8b32-3867e1572190 978-2-503-61981-1 978-2-503-61982-8 31 564 Turnhout, Belgium open access |
| spellingShingle | Arabic Philosophy Astrology Divination Foreknowledge Future Contingents Medieval Philosophy Prognostication THEMAQDHF Medieval Debates on Foreknowledge: Future Contingents, Prophecy, and Divination |
| title | Medieval Debates on Foreknowledge: Future Contingents, Prophecy, and Divination |
| title_full | Medieval Debates on Foreknowledge: Future Contingents, Prophecy, and Divination |
| title_fullStr | Medieval Debates on Foreknowledge: Future Contingents, Prophecy, and Divination |
| title_full_unstemmed | Medieval Debates on Foreknowledge: Future Contingents, Prophecy, and Divination |
| title_short | Medieval Debates on Foreknowledge: Future Contingents, Prophecy, and Divination |
| title_sort | medieval debates on foreknowledge future contingents prophecy and divination |
| topic | Arabic Philosophy Astrology Divination Foreknowledge Future Contingents Medieval Philosophy Prognostication THEMAQDHF |
| topic_facet | Arabic Philosophy Astrology Divination Foreknowledge Future Contingents Medieval Philosophy Prognostication THEMAQDHF |
| url | https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/176353 |