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The Waxing of the Middle Ages: Revisiting Late Medieval France
University of Delaware Press, 2023 Paper: 978-1-64453-290-4 | eISBN: 978-1-64453-294-2 | Cloth: 978-1-64453-291-1 Library of Congress Classification DC33.3.W39 2023 Dewey Decimal Classification 944.026
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Johan Huizinga’s much-loved and much-contested Autumn of the Middle Ages, first published in 1919, encouraged an image of the Late French Middle Ages as a flamboyant but empty period of decline and nostalgia. Many studies, particularly literary studies, have challenged Huizinga’s perceptions of individual works or genres. Still, the vision of the Late French and Burgundian Middle Ages as a sad transitional phase between the High Middle Ages and the Renaissance persists. Yet, a series of exceptionally significant cultural developments mark the period. The Waxing of the Middle Ages sets out to provide a rich, complex, and diverse study of these developments and to reassert that late medieval France is crucial in its own right. The collection argues for an approach that views the late medieval period not as an afterthought, or a blind spot, but as a period that is key in understanding the fluidity of time, traditions, culture, and history. Each essay explores some “cultural form,” to borrow Huizinga’s expression, to expose the false divide that has dominated modern scholarship. See other books on: 1328-1600 | 15th century | 1872-1945 | Huizinga, Johan | Middle Ages See other titles from University of Delaware Press |
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The Waxing of the Middle Ages: Revisiting Late Medieval France
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
University of Delaware Press, 2023
Paper: 978-1-64453-290-4
eISBN: 978-1-64453-294-2
Cloth: 978-1-64453-291-1
Paper: 978-1-64453-290-4
eISBN: 978-1-64453-294-2
Cloth: 978-1-64453-291-1
Johan Huizinga’s much-loved and much-contested Autumn of the Middle Ages, first published in 1919, encouraged an image of the Late French Middle Ages as a flamboyant but empty period of decline and nostalgia. Many studies, particularly literary studies, have challenged Huizinga’s perceptions of individual works or genres. Still, the vision of the Late French and Burgundian Middle Ages as a sad transitional phase between the High Middle Ages and the Renaissance persists. Yet, a series of exceptionally significant cultural developments mark the period.
The Waxing of the Middle Ages sets out to provide a rich, complex, and diverse study of these developments and to reassert that late medieval France is crucial in its own right. The collection argues for an approach that views the late medieval period not as an afterthought, or a blind spot, but as a period that is key in understanding the fluidity of time, traditions, culture, and history. Each essay explores some “cultural form,” to borrow Huizinga’s expression, to expose the false divide that has dominated modern scholarship.
The Waxing of the Middle Ages sets out to provide a rich, complex, and diverse study of these developments and to reassert that late medieval France is crucial in its own right. The collection argues for an approach that views the late medieval period not as an afterthought, or a blind spot, but as a period that is key in understanding the fluidity of time, traditions, culture, and history. Each essay explores some “cultural form,” to borrow Huizinga’s expression, to expose the false divide that has dominated modern scholarship.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
