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Book Synopsis1 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.
