Download or read book The Waning of the Middle Ages written by J. Huizinga and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “To the world when it was half a thousand years younger,” Huizinga begins, “the outline of all things seemed more clearly marked than to us.” Life seemed to consist in extremes—a fierce religious asceticism and an unrestrained licentiousness, ferocious judicial punishments and great popular waves of pity and mercy, the most horrible crimes and the most extravagant acts of saintliness—and everywhere a sea of tears, for men have never wept so unrestrainedly as in those centuries. First published in 1924, this brilliant portrait of the life, thought, and art in France and the Netherlands in the 14th and 15th centuries is our most trenchant study of that crucial moment in history when the Middle Ages gave way to the great energy of the Renaissance. From an analysis of the dominating ideas of the times—those that held the medieval world together, supported its religion and informed its art and literature—emerges the style of a whole culture at the extreme limit of its development.
Download or read book The Waning of the Middle Ages written by Johan Huizinga and published by Penguin Hardcover. This book was released on 2001 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of life, thought and art in France and the Netherlands in the 14th and 15th centuries remains a classic historical work. In it, Johan Huizinga challenges the prevailing notion that the Middle Ages were just a prelude to the Renaissance. Examining in detail the work of the brothers Van Eyck, he goes on to demonstrate his belief that the actions of princes and statesmen, the chivalry of knights, and the outpourings of theologians, artists, poets and chroniclers were the final and perfect flowering of an older style of life. He ends his work by concluding that in an age of violent contrasts and impressive forms there was a tone of passion in everyday life that helped produce that perpetual oscillation between despair and distracted joy, between cruelty and pious tenderness, which characterize life in the Middle Ages.
Download or read book The Waning of the Middle Ages written by Johan Huizinga and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Autumn of the Middle Ages written by Johan Huizinga and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-03-15 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here is the first full translation into English of one of the 20th century's few undoubted classics of history." —Washington Post Book World The 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 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. 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 published in 1919. In the 1924 translation, Fritz Hopman adapted, reduced and altered the Dutch edition—softening Huizinga's passionate arguments, dulling his nuances, and eliminating theoretical passages. He dropped many passages Huizinga had quoted in their original old French. Additionally, chapters were rearranged, all references were dropped, and mistranslations were introduced. This translation corrects such errors, recreating the second Dutch edition which represents Huizinga's thinking at its most important stage. Everything that was dropped or rearranged has been restored. Prose quotations appear in French, with translations preprinted at the bottom of the page, mistranslations have been corrected. "The advantages of the new translation are so many. . . . It is one of the greatest, as well as one of the most enthralling, historical classics of the twentieth century, and everyone will surely want to read it in the form that was obviously intended by the author." —Francis Haskell, New York Review of Books "A once pathbreaking piece of historical interpretation. . . . This new translation will no doubt bring Huizinga and his pioneering work back into the discussion of historical interpretation." —Rosamond McKitterick, New York Times Book Review
Download or read book The Waning of the Middle Ages a Study of the Forms of Life Thought and Art in France and the Netherlands in The14th and 15th Centuries written by J. Huizinga and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Waning of the Middle Ages written by Johan Huizinga and published by . This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Waning of the Middle Ages Paperback written by Johan H. Huizinga and published by Benediction Books. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text studies life, thought and art in France and the Netherlands in the 14th and 15th centuries. Johan Huizinga challenges the prevailing notion that the Middle Ages were just a prelude to the Renaissance.
Download or read book The Waning of the Middle Ages written by Johan H. Huizinga and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Waning of Hte Middle Ages a Study of the Forms of Life Thought and Art in France and the Netherlands in the 14th and 15th Centuries written by J. Huizinga and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Waning of the Middle Ages a Study of the Forms of Life Thought and Art in France and the Netherlands in the Fourtheenth and Fifteenth Centuries written by Johan Huizinga and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Waning of the Middle Ages written by Johan Huizinga (Kulturhistoriker, Niederlande) and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Waning of the Middle Ages ba Study of the Forms of Life Thought and Art in France and the Netherlands in the XIVth and XVth Centuries written by Johan Huizinga and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The waning of the middle ages a study of the forms of life thought written by Johan Huizinga and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Autumntide of the Middle Ages written by Johan Huizinga and published by Leiden University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This new and now unabridged English translation of Huizinga's Autumntide of the Middle Ages (Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen) celebrates the centenary of a book that still ranks as one of the most perceptive and in¿uential analyses of the late medieval period. Its wide-ranging discussion of fourteenth and ¿fteenth century France and the Low Countries makes it a classic study of life, culture, and thought in medieval society. The translation of the original text captures the impact of Huizinga's deep scholarship and powerful language. The translation is based on the Dutch edition of 1941 - the last edition Huizinga worked on. It features English renderings of the Middle French poems and other contemporary sources. A complete bibliography of Huizinga's sources will facilitate further research, while an epilogue addresses the meaning and enduring importance of this classic work. Johan Huizinga (1872-1945), one of the founders of cultural history, ranks among the most influential Dutch thinkers of the twentieth century. He produced a body of writing on subjects that range from medieval art to the mechanization of modern America. The publication of Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen in 1919 brought him international renown, and contributed to the multiple nominations he received later in his career for the Nobel Prize in Literature, a rare accolade for a professor of history. Among his other important works are Erasmus (1924), In the Shadow of Tomorrow (1935) and Homo Ludens (1938). He died in internal exile, two months before the liberation of the Netherlands."
