Huizinga’s Autumntide: The Centenary of a Masterpiece
Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: Johan Huizinga (1872–1945) first published his Herfsttij der middeleeuwen: Studie over Levens- en Gedachtenvormen der veertiende en vijftiende eeuw in Frankrijk en de Nederlanden in 1919. It has subsequently gained a worldwide readership, as a prescribed text in university syllabuses and as a work read by a wider public. But its title, subtitle, organisation into chapters, footnotes and references, and text itself, both with and without the author’s oversight, have undergone many changes, especially in translation, some approved during Huizinga’s lifetime, others more recent. Subsequent translations into English, German and French (it has been translated into no fewer than nineteen languages, including Korean, Mandarin and Japanese) have variously rendered the title as The Waning of the Middle Ages, The Autumn...
Source: The English Historical Review
DOI: 10.1093/ehr/ceab109
Author: Malcolm Vale
Institution: University of Oxford
Language: English
Subfield: Classics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,894
OpenAlex ID: W3194986447