Prophetic Futures

Contents
Prophetic histories, portentous figures
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English political prophecy and the problem of modernity
	Abstract
	English political prophecy: Coordinates of form and history
	The Age of Prophecy
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The prophetess and the pope: St. Hildegard of Bingen, Pope Benedict XVI, and prophetic visions of church reform
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Valencia’s miraculous prophet: The Inquisition dossier of Catalina Muñoz (1588)
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	Catalina Muñoz and Valencia’s period plagued by scandals
	Catalina’s hagiographic presence as Alcahueta
	Conclusions, or a Derridian closure: The Pharmakon
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Prophecy and emendation: Merlin, Chaucer, Lear’s Fool
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	The editorial problem
	‘Chaucer’s Prophecy’: Attribution and reception
	The Fool’s prophecy: Interpretation and emendation
	Acknowledgements
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Wasting time in The Committee-man Curried
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	Play pamphlet drama
	Wasting time
	Spending money
	Wasting paper
	Acknowledgements
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‘The carcasse speakes’: Vital corpses and prophetic remains in Thomas May’s Antigone
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	Context, definitions, sources
	May’s speaking carcass
	Bodies, knowledge, and tragic form
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Prophecy and poetry: The Second World War and the turn to biblical typology in George Herbert’s The Temple
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	Tuve’s Chapel Talks
	Wartime typology and Nouvelle Théologie
	Tuve’s scholarly treatment of typology
	Typological criticism after Tuve
	Acknowledgements
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Histories and temporalities past, present, and future
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