"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."
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Translator’s note
- Huizinga’s prefaces to the first five Dutch editions
- Chapter 1. Life’s Fierceness
- Chapter 2. The Yearning for a Finer Life
- Chapter 3. The Hierarchical Conception of Society
- Chapter 4. The Notion of Knighthood
- Chapter 5. Dreams of Heroic Deeds and Love
- Chapter 6. Chivalric Orders and Knightly Vows
- Chapter 7. Significance of the Chivalric Ideal in Warfare and Statecraft
- Chapter 8. The Stylization of Love
- Chapter 9. The Proprieties of Love
- Chapter 10. The Idyllic Image of Life
- Chapter 11. The Image of Death
- Chapter 12. The Representation of All Things Holy
- Chapter 13. Types of Religious Life
- Chapter 14. Religious Emotion and the Religious Imagination
- Chapter 1. Symbolism Withered
- Chapter 16. Realism and the Defeat of the Imagination in Mysticism
- Chapter 17. Forms of Thought in Practical Life
- Chapter 18. Art in Life
- Chapter 19. The Sense of Beauty
- Chapter 20. The Image and the Word
- Chapter 21. The Word and the Image
- Chapter 22. The Coming of the New Form
- Notes
- Original Citations
- Genealogy of the House of Burgundy
- Timeline
- Index
- Epilogue
- From Herfsttij to Autumntide
- Bibliography
- Translated Sources Consulted
- About the Translator and Editors
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