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*Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen* is het bekendste werk van de historicus Johan Huizinga uit 1919. In het werk presenteert Huizinga het idee dat de overdreven formaliteit en romantiek van het laatmiddeleeuwse hofleven een verdedigingsmechanisme was tegen de toenemende verruwing van de maatschappij. Huizinga gebruikte voor Herfsttij kronieken en literatuur als bronnen en bewust geen archiefstukken. Zijn boek is, meer dan een kunsthistorische studie, een proeve van cultuur- en mentaliteitsgeschiedenis. Source: [Wikipedia](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herfsttij_der_Middeleeuwen) ---------- From the Preface of the English translation: The present work deals with the history of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries regarded as a period of termination, as the close of the Middle Ages. Such a view of them presented itself to the author of this volume, whilst endeavouring to arrive at a genuine understanding of the art of the brothers Van Eyck and their contemporaries, that is to say, to grasp its meaning by seeing it in connection with the entire life of their times. Now the common feature of the various manifestations of civilization of that epoch proved to be inherent rather in that which

Author

J. Huizinga

Publisher

Penguin; Penguin UK

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780140137026

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

4.67 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-24