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/
Back to the Future
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Lovely to see the 18th century French correspondences that we worked in the project analyzed and discussed!
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CFP Contingency and Imagination. Rethinking Economic Agency in the Early Modern Period tu-dresden.de/gsw/phil/ige...
Project member Max-Quentin Bischoff will defend his PhD dissertation "Merchants' Futures: Plans and expectations in the Tucher family company, c.1520-c.1550" on Wednesday 10 June at Felixarchief Antwerpen (start at 13:30). More about this: www.uantwerpen.be/en/projects/...
Wonderful symposium! There is still time to write your proposal!
‼️Publication alert‼️📯Born under Mercury: God’s Influence on the Future Perspective of the Medieval Italian Merchant by dr. Nicolò Zennaro www.uantwerpen.be/en/projects/...
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/...
🎖️Project member @nicolozennaro.bsky.social received the Special Mention for the Human Solvency Historical Research Prize 2026. Congratulations!
More info can be had here: www.uantwerpen.be/en/projects/...
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...
