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Prophetic Futures

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  1. Joseph Bowling

    1. University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, USA

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  2. Katherine Walker

    1. University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, USA

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Prophetic histories, portentous figures

    • Joseph Bowling, Katherine Walker
    Pages 1-5

  3. English political prophecy and the problem of modernity

    • Eric Weiskott
    Pages 7-20

  4. The prophetess and the pope: St. Hildegard of Bingen, Pope Benedict XVI, and prophetic visions of church reform

    • Nathaniel M. Campbell
    Pages 21-34

  5. Valencia’s miraculous prophet: The Inquisition dossier of Catalina Muñoz (1588)

    • Nicholas R. Jones
    Pages 35-48

  6. Prophecy and emendation: Merlin, Chaucer, Lear’s Fool

    • Misha Teramura
    Pages 49-66

  7. Wasting time in The Committee-man Curried

    • Marissa Nicosia
    Pages 67-80

  8. The carcasse speakes’: Vital corpses and prophetic remains in Thomas May’s Antigone

    • Penelope Meyers Usher
    Pages 81-93

  9. Prophecy and poetry: The Second World War and the turn to biblical typology in George Herbert’s The Temple

    • Martin Elsky
    Pages 95-110

  10. Histories and temporalities past, present, and future Dennis Austin Britton

    • Dennis Austin Britton
    Pages 111-126
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About this book

This book is based on the postmedieval journal special issue Prophetic Futures. It calls for renewed attention to prophecy and temporality, challenging in the process critical lenses that adhere to strict dualities of medieval/modern, superstitious/rationalized, and other problematic dyads that occlude our understanding of vatic language. The language, texts, and bodies of prophecy challenge commonplaces about a disenchanted modernity and point the way to new critical approaches to texts out of time. Previously published in postmedieval Volume 10, issue 1, March 2019.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, USA

    Joseph Bowling

  • University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, USA

    Katherine Walker

About the editors

Joseph Bowling Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA

Katherine Walker Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Prophetic Futures

  • Editors: Joseph Bowling, Katherine Walker

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18519-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18518-2Published: 11 January 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18521-2Published: 11 January 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-18519-9Published: 10 January 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: V, 126

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Additional Information: ​Previously published in postmedieval Volume 10, issue 1, March 2019

  • Topics: Medieval Literature, Medieval Philosophy, History of Medieval Europe

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