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In the book, Huizinga presents the idea that the exaggerated formality and romanticism of late medieval court society was a defense mechanism against the constantly increasing violence and brutality of general society. He saw the period as one of pessimism, cultural exhaustion, and nostalgia, rather than of rebirth and optimism. His main conclusion is that the combination of required modernization of statehood governance, stuck in traditionalism, in combination with the exhausting inclusion of an ever-growing corpus of Catholic rites and popular beliefs in daily life, led to the implosion of late medieval society. This provided light to the rise of (religious) individualism, humanism and scientific progress: the renaissance. The book was nominated for the 1939 Nobel Prize for Literature, but lost to the Finnish writer Frans Eemil Sillanpaa. Huizinga's work later came under some criticism, especially for relying too heavily on evidence from the rather exceptional case of the Burgundian court. Other criticisms include the writing of the book being "old-fashioned" and "too literary".^[1] A new English translation of the book was published in 1996 because of perceived deficiencies in the original translation. The new translation, by Rodney Payton and Ulrich Mammitzsch, was based on the second edition of the Dutch publication in 1921 and compared with the German translation published in 1924. [220px-Johan_Huizinga]Johan Huizinga: Autumntide of the Middle Ages. Book cover of 2020 edition. To mark the centenary of Herfsttij, a new translation by Diane Webb appeared in 2020, published by Leiden University Press: Autumntide of the Middle Ages. According to Benjamin Kaplan, this translation "captures Huizinga's original voice better than either of the two previous English editions".^[2] This new English edition also includes for the first time 300 full-colour illustrations of all the works of art Huizinga mentions in his text. In the 1970s, Radio Netherlands produced an audio series about the book, entitled "Autumn of the Middle Ages: A Six-part History in Words and Music from the Low Countries".^[3] See also [edit] * The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy References [edit] 1. ^ "The Autumn of the Middle Ages". press.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 28 December 2022. 2. ^ "New English Edition of Huizinga's Autumntide Captures His Original Voice Better Than Ever", The Low Countries, July 17, 2020. 3. ^ "Autumn of the Middle Ages", Radio Netherlands, January 27, 1976. Sources [edit] * Bouwsma, William J. (1974). "The Waning of the Middle Ages". Daedalus. 103 (1): 35-43. * Peters, Edward; Simons, Walter P. (1999). "The New Huizinga and the Old Middle Ages". Speculum. 74 (3): 587-62. doi:10.2307/ 2886762. JSTOR 2886762. S2CID 162024427. * Moran, Sean Farrell (2016). "Johan Huizinga, The Waning of the Middle Ages, and the Writing of History". Michigan Academician. 43 (3): 410-423. doi:10.7245/0026-2005-43.3.410. * Huizinga, Johan (2020). Autumntide of the Middle Ages. Leiden University Press. ISBN 9789087283131. Translated by Diane Webb. Edited by Graeme Small & Anton van der Lem. The translation is based on the Dutch edition of 1941 - the last edition Huizinga worked on. It features English renderings of the Middle French poems and other contemporary sources, and its colour illustrations include over three hundred paintings and prints, illuminated manuscripts, and miniatures pertinent to Huizinga's discourse. Also includes a complete bibliography of Huizinga's sources and an epilogue that addresses the meaning and enduring importance of this classic work. External links [edit] * # The full text of The Waning of the Middle Ages at Wikisource. * Huizinga, Johan (1924), The Waning of the Middle Ages (scanned book), Edward Arnold & Co. - via Internet Archive. * # The Waning of the Middle Ages public domain audiobook at LibriVox * Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen at Project Gutenberg (In original Dutch). * Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title= The_Autumn_of_the_Middle_Ages&oldid=1248030778" Categories: * History books about the Middle Ages * 1919 non-fiction books * 1924 non-fiction books * Books by Johan Huizinga Hidden categories: * Articles with short description * Short description is different from Wikidata * Articles with LibriVox links * Articles with Project Gutenberg links * This page was last edited on 27 September 2024, at 07:54 (UTC). * Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. 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