Rereading Huizinga
Autumn of the Middle Ages, a Century Later
Published on 1. October 2025
364 pages
978-1-040-79428-9 (ISBN)
Description
Rereading Huizinga: Autumn of the Middle Ages, a Century Later explores the legacy and historiographical impact of Johan Huizinga's 1919 masterwork a century after its publication. Often considered one of the most successful books in medieval European history, its reception has varied over the last hundred years, popular with non-academic readers, and appraised more critically by fellow historians and those more generally in the field of medieval studies. There is broad consensus, however, about the work's absolute centrality, and the authors of this volume assess the Autumn of the Middle Ages reception, afterlife, and continued vitality.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
3,45 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-79428-9 (9781040794289)
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Autumn of the Middle Ages, a Century Later
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Persons
Peter Arnade is dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Hawai'i Manoa. Among his publications are Realms of Ritual: Burgundian Ceremony and Civic Life in Late-Medieval Ghent and Beggars, Iconoclasts and Civic Patriots: The Political Culture of the Dutch Revolt.
Martha Howell is Miriam Champion Professor of History at Columbia University, New York. Among her publications are Commerce before Capitalism in Europe, 1300-1600; The Marriage Exchange: Property, Social Place and Gender in Cities of the Low Countries, 1300-1550; and Women, Production, and Patriarchy in Late Medieval Cities.
Anton van der Lem is curator of rare books at University Library Leiden. He made the inventory of the Huizinga Archives. In 2018 he edited the centennial edition of Herfsttij, richly illustrated with 300 reproductions.
Martha Howell is Miriam Champion Professor of History at Columbia University, New York. Among her publications are Commerce before Capitalism in Europe, 1300-1600; The Marriage Exchange: Property, Social Place and Gender in Cities of the Low Countries, 1300-1550; and Women, Production, and Patriarchy in Late Medieval Cities.
Anton van der Lem is curator of rare books at University Library Leiden. He made the inventory of the Huizinga Archives. In 2018 he edited the centennial edition of Herfsttij, richly illustrated with 300 reproductions.
Content
Acknowledgements, Introduction: Peter Arnade and Martha Howell I: Huizinga and the Late-Medieval North 1. Andrew Brown: Huizinga's Autumn: The Burgundian Court at Play. 2. Walter Simons: Wrestling with the Angel: Huizinga, Herfsttij, and Religion. 3. Jan Dumolyn and Elodie Lecuppre-Desjardin: Huizinga's Silence: Urban Culture and Herfsttij. 4. Jun Cho: The Forms behind the Vormen: Huizinga, New Cultural History, and the Culture of Commerce. 5. Marc Boone: Yet Another Failed State? The Huizinga-Pirenne Controversy on the Burgundian State Reconsidered. II: Art, Literature and Sources in Autumn of the Middle Ages 6. Diane Wolfthal: Art History and Huizinga's Autumn. 7. Larry Silver: Did Germany Have a Medieval Herbstzeit? 8. Graeme Small: The Making of the Autumn of the Middle Ages I: Narrative Sources and Their Treatment in Autumn. 9. Anton van der Lem: The Making of the Autumn of the Middle Ages II: The Eagle and His Pigeonholes: How Huizinga Organized His Sources. III: Legacies: Huizinga and Historiography 10. Carol Symes: Harvest of Death: Johan Huizinga's Critique of Medievalism. 11. Birger Vanwesenbeeck: Huizinga, Theorist of Lateness? 12. Peter Arnade: Huizinga: Anthropologist Avant la Lettre? 13. Myriam Greilsammer: A Late and Ambivalent Recognition: (The Autumn of) Johan Huizinga and the French Historians of the Nouvelle Histoire. Epilogue: Willem Otterspeer: Reading Together, Bibliography of works cited, Index of names
