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The Autumn of the Middle Ages by Johan Huizinga
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The Autumn of the Middle Ages

by Johan Huizinga

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"To the world when it was half a thousand years younger," [the author] 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.

This brilliant portrait of the life, thought, and art in France and the Netherlands in the fourteenth and fifteenth 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.
  yoursources | Feb 11, 2009 |
Changing ideas about health and death.
  muir | Dec 10, 2007 |
Ein Klassiker der Kulturgeschichtsschreibung - vergleichbar mit Jakob Burkhardts "Kultur der Renaissance". Huizingas großes Panorama der Kultur des Spätmittelalters beruht auf der gründlichen Auswertung von Quellen des burgundischen und französischen Raums (einschließlich von Bildwerken, theologischen Texten und fiktionaler Literatur). Brilliant geschrieben und ein Lesegenuss. ( )
  udo | Nov 2, 2007 |
This is the older translation, superseded by
Autumn of the Middle Ages
  antiquary | Jun 26, 2007 |
excellent insights into how people change society. ( )
  humdog | Feb 17, 2007 |
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Toen de wereld vijf eeuwen jonger was, hadden alle levensgevallen veel scherper uiterlijke vormen dan nu.
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In 1919, Johan Huizinga revealed in the original version of this book that the ideals, aspirations, and behaviors of humanity in history were dramatically different from those in present day. In Herfsttjj der Middeleeuwen, he recalled the waning years of the Middle Ages--the low countries in northern Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries--and argued against those who claimed that human belief systems remain the same even if contexts change. His account rested not on historical fact, but on the emotions and ambitions of the people as expressed through the art and literature of their culture. Many people treated the book as groundbreaking work, and it was translated into English in 1924. This new translation is a complete, more direct version of the original and allows modern readers a full appreciation of life in an era rarely revisited.

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