The Autumn of the Middle Ages
by Huizinga, Johan; Payton, Rodney J., and Mammitzsch, Ulrich (Translated by)
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- ISBN 10
- 0226359921
- ISBN 13
- 9780226359922
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About This Item
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Cloth, viii, 328 pages, [14] pages of plates, illustrations; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. First edition thus. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. Required reading for all Medievalist/Renaissance scholars, often published as The Waning of the Middle Ages. A great read. "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 with all other European-language translations. Now, for the first time ever, the original version of this classic work has been translated into English. Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen, or The Autumn of the Middle Ages - the original title - is a brilliant portrait of life, thought, and art in fourteenth- and fifteenth- century France and the Netherlands. For Huizinga, this period marked not the birth of a dramatically new era in history, the Renaissance, but the fullest, ripest phase of medieval life and thought. Criticized both at home and in Europe for being 'old-fashioned' and 'too literary' when first published in 1919, the book is now recognized not only for its quality and richness as history, but also as a precursor to the Annales 'histoire des mentalites' school of Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre, two of the few reviewers who praised the book initially. In the 1924 translation, Fritz Hopman adapted, reduced, and altered the Dutch edition - softening Huizinga's often passionate arguments, dulling his nuances, and eliminating theoretical passages. He dropped many passages Huizinga had quoted in their original old French. Additionally, chapters are rearranged and redivided, all references are dropped, and mistranslations are introduced. This translation corrects such errors, recreating the second Dutch edition - which represents Huizinga's thinking at its most important stage - as closely as possible. Everything that was dropped or rearranged has been restored. Prose quotations appear in French, with translations printed at the bottom of the page. Mistranslations have been corrected. Payton and Mammitzsch also have added helpful material, including Huizinga's preface to the first and second Dutch editions (published in 1919 and 1921) and the one to the 1924 German translation, where he touches on the book's title and offers some thoughts on translations. Several notes clarify Huizinga's references to things which would be common knowledge only to Dutch readers. Huizinga frequently refers to paintings, sculptures, and carvings, some little known; this edition is the first in any language to include a full range of illustrations." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.
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- Title
- The Autumn of the Middle Ages
- Author
- Huizinga, Johan; Payton, Rodney J., and Mammitzsch, Ulrich (Translated by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0226359921
- ISBN 13
- 9780226359922
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1996
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- European / 4. Renaissance; European / Dutch & Flemish; European / 3. Medieval / Gothic;
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