The Autumn of the Middle Ages
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The Autumn of the Middle Ages
Johan Huizinga
History
James Mustich
Aug 1, 2018
Viewing the age through the trifocal lens of art, literature, and chivalry, Johan Huizinga argued that the Renaissance was less the birth of the modern age than it was the death of the medieval. More importantly, his focus on the imagination of the era to reveal the emotions, ambitions, and collective psychology of the past offered a revolutionary perspective on the human significance embedded in cultural evidence, as when he asserted that the paintings of Van Eyck and Memling, for instance, might reveal more than documents about human experience in the Middle Ages.
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Jeremy Johnson
Jul 10, 2024
Classic work for understanding humanity. Barbara Tuchman takes one the analysis from one chapter from the book and expands it to her own full-length book, A Distant Mirror.
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