Back to the Future: Future expectations and actions in late medieval and early modern Europe, c.1400-c.1830

Project Information

Back2theFuture

Grant agreement ID: 851053

DOI

10.3030/851053

Project closed

EC signature date 9 September 2019

Start date 1 February 2020

End date 31 July 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 470 883,00

EU contribution

€ 1 470 883,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN
Belgium

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Publications

Book chapters (2)

«Credo per la grazia di Dio farei bene». Future thinking and knowledge of a risk (in)expert in late medieval Venice

Author(s): Nicolò Zennaro
Published in: Datini Studies in Economic History, Gestione del rischio, insolvenza e bancarotta nel mondo premoderno (secc. XIII-XVIII) / Risk management, insolvency, and bankruptcy in the pre-modern world (13th-18th centuries), 2026, Page(s) 331-357
Publisher: Firenze University Press
DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0963-2.22

Born under Mercury: God’s Influence on the Future Perspective of the Medieval Italian Merchant

Author(s): Nicolò Zennaro
Published in: Cultures of Exchange. Mercantile Mentalities between Italy and the World (XII-XVI c.), 2026, Page(s) 148-169, ISBN 9781487549879
Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Peer reviewed articles (6)

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

Author(s): Elisabeth Heijmans
Published in: Enterprise & Society, 2026, Page(s) 1-23, ISSN 1467-2227
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1017/eso.2026.10120

Merchants, corsairs, and pirates. Mercantile resilience to piracy in late medieval Venice

Author(s): Zennaro, Nicolò
Published in: Archivio Veneto, Issue V. 156 N. 30 (VI serie) (2025), 2025, Page(s) 41-65, ISSN 0392-0291
Publisher: Deputazione veneta dal 1875

State of the Field: Histories of the Future

Author(s): Jeroen Puttevils, Max‐Quentin Bischoff, Sara Budts, Elisabeth Heijmans, Sanne Hermans, Nicolò Zennaro
Published in: History, Issue 109, 2024, Page(s) 150-172, ISSN 0018-2648
Publisher: F. Hodgson
DOI: 10.1111/1468-229x.13389

Exploring morphosyntactic variation and change with Distributional Semantic Models

Author(s): Sara Budts; Lauren Fonteyn; Enrique Manjavacas
Published in: Journal of Historical Syntax, Issue 6, 2022, ISSN 2163-6001
Publisher: University of Konstanz
DOI: 10.18148/hs/2022.v7i13-18.132

The secularisation of future expectations in practice: An empirical study of divine appeals in Early Modern English letters

Author(s): Budts, Sara
Published in: Journal of Digital History, Issue 4,1, 2025, ISSN 2747-5271
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/jdh-2025-0003?locatt=label:jdhfull

Mercanti in gioco: un cartello di sfida nella Prato di fine Trecento

Author(s): Zennaro, Nicolò
Published in: Ludica. Annali di storia e civiltà del gioco, Issue 27, 2021, Page(s) 85-99, ISSN 2612-3894
Publisher: Viella
DOI: 10.23744/4108

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Terug naar de toekomst: toekomstverwachtingen en acties in laatmiddeleeuws en vroegmodern Europa, ca. 1400 - ca. 1830

Author(s): Puttevils, Jeroen
Published in: Jaarboek De zeventiende eeuw : cultuur in de Nederlanden in interdisciplinair perspectief, Issue Annual, 2021, Page(s) 121-126, ISSN 2589-3637
Publisher: Verloren

Thesis and dissertations (1)

1400: un fortunoso anno : future thinking and risk in late medieval Venice

Author(s): null null, Nicolò Zennaro
Published in: 2025
Publisher: University of Antwerp
DOI: 10.63028/10067/2137000151162165141