Pursuing Hope in the Premodern World

Ville Vuolanto is Senior Lecturer in History at Tampere University, Finland.Oana-Maria Cojocaru is an Independent Researcher based in Bucharest, Romania.

• 1. Hope and Futurity: Emotions, Strategies and Virtues in the Premodern World.- 2. From Superstition to Agency: Ancient and Modern Approaches to Hope.- 3. Searching for Hope in Roman Antiquity: Changing Patterns of Discourses and Agency.- 4. Is there Hope for the Barbarian? Imagining Outgroup Futurities in Ammianus Marcellinus and Eunapius of Sardis.- 5. Lost Hopes? Parental Hope and the Death of Children in Ancient Rome.- 6. Looking Back for Hope: Patterns of Salvation and Positive Performances in the Third-Century Synagogue at Dura Europos .- 7. caelestia regna petisti: Seeking Hope in Late Antique Funerary Verse Inscription.- 8. Family Crises and the Construction of Hope: The Case of Michael Psellos.- 9. Earthly Ambitions and Otherworldly Hopes in Twelfth-Century Constantinople: Nicholas Kallikles’ Funerary Epigrams for the Komnenian Elite.- 10. Heretical Hope: Striving for Salvation and the Good Death in Medieval Languedoc.- 11. Latter-day Lazaruses: Hoping to Avoid Death in the Late Middle Ages.- 12. Infirmity, Hope, and Lived Religion in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe .- 13. Hope, Nostalgia and the Use of Emotions in Early Modern Medicine.- 14. Constructing and Performing Hope in the Premodern World.