Hailed and criticized, cherished and rejected, herfsttij has been remained influential up to this day, hundred years after its first publication in 1919. Open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Here is the first full translation into english of one of the 20th centurys few undoubted classics of history. The new huizinga and the old middle ages with edward peters. Zijn boek is, meer dan een kunsthistorische studie, een proeve van cultuuren mentaliteitsgeschiedenis. Project gutenberg offers 61,628 free ebooks to download. He wrote his doctoral thesis on the role of the jester in indian drama in 1897. Even the books title word, herfsttij autumntide, was novel, a neologism in dutch settled upon after provisional titles like.
Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. With an overdrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for ataglance information about availability. The articles and studies were arranged by subject in eight volumes. Huizinga s verzamelde werken were published in nine volumes between 1948 and 1953 by publishing house tjeenk willink in haarlem. A study of the forms of life, thought and art in france and the netherlands in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Topics middle ages, johan huizinga collection opensource. Johan huizinga is the greatest of all dutch cultural historians, whose fascination with the past speaks from every page of his work. Publication date 1922 topics cdak collection digitallibraryindia. The ninth volume contains the indexes and a bibliography of huizinga s publication in chronological order. Collection gutenberg contributor project gutenberg language dutch. Huizinga gebruikte voor herfsttij kronieken en literatuur als bronnen, en bewust geen archiefstukken. He then studied comparative linguistics, gaining a good command of sanskrit. Nadat ik mijn latere poolse echtgenote in 1969 had. Van latijnse, franse en duitse citaten worden vertalingen gegeven.
Washington post book world the autumn of the middle ages is johan huizinga s classic portrait of life, thought, and art in fourteenth and fifteenthcentury france and the netherlands. France and the low countries in the late middle ages, italy and france during the renaissance, the dutch. For huizinga, this period marked not the birth of a dramatically new era in history, the renaissance, but the fullest, ripest phase of medieval. Want huizinga aanhalen, hem noemen, komt goed over, maakt een belezen indruk en dat doet goed. Few who have read this book in english realize that the waning of the middle. The question following huizinga s writings have centered on whether or not he is a real historian.
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