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Johan Huizinga
2016 Reprint of 1924 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Huizinga had an aesthetic approach to history, where art and spectacle played an…
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The lifetime of Johan Huizinga (1872-1945) was marked by dramatic transformations in Europe. Cityscapes, aesthetic codes, social orders, political cultures, international travel and means of warfare developed beyond recognition; entire…
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Johan Huizinga had a special sympathy for the complex, withdrawn personality of Erasmus and for his advocacy of intellectual and spiritual balance in a quarrelsome age. This biography is a…
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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This work is a classic – a thorough examination of life and culture in the Middle Ages as it progressed toward the Renaissance. The author shows how the 14th and…
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This collection by the distinguished Dutch historian Johan Huizinga (1872-1945) reflects the theme of its key essay, The Task of Cultural History, throughout its pages. Huizinga’s conception of cultural history…
Discusses the cultural phenomenon of the human play instincts and play acting in modern western society.
2014 Reprint of 1955 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In Homo Ludens, the classic evaluation of play that has become a must-read…
An unabridged reprint of the first edition published by Routledge & Kegan Paul, Ltd., 1949 –Copyright page.
Het boek ""Het Aesthetische Bestanddeel Van Geschiedkundige Voorstellingen"" (1905) van Johan Huizinga is een studie naar de esthetische elementen in historische voorstellingen. Huizinga onderzoekt hoe kunstenaars en schrijvers historische gebeurtenissen…
Het Aesthetische Bestanddeel Van Geschiedkundige Voorstellingen is een boek geschreven door Johan Huizinga en gepubliceerd in 1905. Het boek behandelt de esthetiek van historische voorstellingen en de rol van schoonheid…
W. R. H. Koops,E. H. Kossmann,Gees Van Der Plaat
From 11 to 15 December 1972 a group of historians from many European countries assembled in Groningen to commemorate the centenary of Johan Huizinga’s birth in that city on 7…
W.R.H. Koops
This new 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…
Johan Huizinga,F Hopman
This is a new release of the original 1957 edition.
Johan H Huizinga
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…
Johan H. Huizinga
Brilliant study of art, life, and thought in France and the Netherlands during 14th-15th centuries explores the period’s splendor and simplicity, courtesy and cruelty, religious, artistic, and practical life; much…
This edition contains 32 illustrations and a selection of letters from Erasmus’ vast correspondence. First published in 1924, this book was written as a companion piece to Huizinga’s masterwork The…
This volume presents the life, thought and art of 14th and 15th-century France and the Netherlands. For the author, this period marked an important phase of medieval life and thought…
This is a portrait of life, thought and art in 14th- and 15th-century France and the Netherlands. Regarded as an historical classic by many scholars, it has also been criticized…
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