The Autumn of the Middle Ages Huizinga Johan
The Autumn of the Middle Ages Huizinga Johan "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…
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The Autumn of the Middle Ages Huizinga Johan
"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. However, his work was criticized both at home and in Europe for being "old-fashioned" and "too literary" when The Waning of the Middle Ages was first 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 fifteenth-century marked not the birth of a dramatically new era in history-the Renaissance-but the fullest, ripest phase of medieval life and thought.
Civilization of the Middle Ages
Famous Men of the Middle Ages
Women Writers of the Middle Ages
The Later Middle Ages
The Intolerant Middle Ages