Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen

Name: Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen
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ISBN: 9780226359946

ISBN-10: 0226359948

ISBN-13: 9780226359946

Edition: 1997

Authors: Johan Huizinga, Rodney J. Payton, Ulrich Mammitzsch

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"Here is the first full translation into English of one of the 20th century's few undoubted classics of history." —Washington Post Book WorldThe Autumn of the Middle Ages is Johan Huizinga's classic portrait of life, thought, and art in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century France and the Netherlands. Few who have read this book in English realize that The Waning of the Middle Ages, the only previous translation, is vastly different from the original Dutch, and incompatible will all other European-language translations. For Huizinga, the fourteenth- and fifteen-century marked not the birth of a dramatically new era in history—the Renaissance—but the fullest, ripest phase of medieval life and…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/24/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 490
Size: 0.59" wide x 0.90" long x 0.13" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



Translator's Introduction


Preface to the Dutch Edition


Preface to the German Translation



The Passionate Intensity of Life



The Craving for a More Beautiful Life



The Heroic Dream



The Forms of Love



The Vision of Death



The Depiction of the Sacred



The Pious Personality



Religious Excitation and Religious Fantasy



The Decline of Symbolism



The Failure of Imagination



The Forms of Thought in Practice



Art in Life



Image and Word



The Coming of the New Form


Notes


Bibliography


Index