Rereading Huizinga: Autumn of the Middle Ages, a Century Later
Rereading Huizinga: Autumn of the Middle Ages, a Century Later
edited by Peter Arnade, Martha Howell and Anton van der Lem
Amsterdam University Press, 2019 eISBN: 978-90-485-3409-8
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
*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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
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](https://history.columbia.edu/faculty/howell-martha-c/) 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](https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/medewerkers/anton-van-der-lem#tab-1) 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements Introduction: Peter Arnade and Martha HowellI: Huizinga and the Late-Medieval North1. 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 Élodie 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 theBurgundian State Reconsidered.II: Art, Literature and Sources in Autumn of the Middle Ages6. 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 Historiography10. 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 TogetherBibliography of works citedIndex of names