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Huizinga, Johan
by The Autumn of the Middle Ages
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0226359921
- ISBN 13
- 9780226359922
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About This Item
Chicago. 1996. University Of Chicago Press. 1st Printing of This New Translation. Very Good in Dustjacket . 0226359921. Translated from the Dutch by Rodney J. Payton & Ulrich Mammitzsch. 490 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Middle Ages History Europe Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - 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. inventory #21974 ISBN: 0226359921.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Huizinga, Johan
- Author
- The Autumn of the Middle Ages
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0226359921
- ISBN 13
- 9780226359922
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- This edition first published
- 1996
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