Autumntide of the Middle Ages
A study of forms of life and thought of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in France and the Low Countries
$127.31
- Paperback
278 pages
- Release Date
12 February 2024
Summary
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 influential analyses of the late medieval period. Its wide-ranging discussion of fourteenth and fifteenth 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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9789087284459 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 9087284454 |
| Author: | Johan Huizinga, Diane Webb, Graeme Small, Anton van der Lem |
| Publisher: | Leiden University Press |
| Imprint: | Leiden University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 278 |
| Release Date: | 12 February 2024 |
| Weight: | 838g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
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Critics Review
“The translator has captured Huizinga’s authorial voice’s poetic qualities without sacrificing the text’s readability. (…) The result is a version of the text that captures Huizinga’s original voice better than either of the two previous English editions.” - Birger Vanwesenbeeck, Los Angeles Review of Books
About The Author
Johan Huizinga
Johan Huizinga (1872-1945)
One of the founders of cultural history, Johan Huizinga 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, a few months before the liberation of the Netherlands.
Diane Webb
Diane Webb has translated a wide range of literature on art-historical and historical subjects, including Ruusbroec: Literature and Mysticism in the Fourteenth Century by Geert Warnar, as well as Herman Pleij’s Dreaming of Cockaigne: Medieval Fantasies of the Perfect Life and Colors Demonic and Divine: Shades of Meaning in the Middle Ages and After (for which she was awarded the Vondel Prize for Dutch Translation in 2005).
Graeme Small
Graeme Small is Professor of Medieval History at Durham University and the author of several books, including George Chastelain and the Shaping of Valois Burgundy, as well as Court and Civic Society in the Burgundian Low Countries (with Andrew Brown) and Late Medieval France.
Anton van der Lem
Anton van der Lem, a leading expert on Huizinga, has written or edited many articles and books, including the recently published Rereading Huizinga. It was at his suggestion that Leiden University Press decided to publish this first full-text translation from the original Dutch into English, and he set the standard with his Dutch centenary edition of Herfsttij. He is a fellow of Leiden University Libraries.
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