"Here is the first full translation into English of one of the 20th century's few undoubted classics of history." -Washington Post Book World
The Autumn of the Middle Ages is Johan Huizinga's classic portrait of life, thought, and art in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century France and the Netherlands. Few who have read this book in English realize that The Waning of the Middle Ages, the only previous translation, is vastly different from the original Dutch, and incompatible will all other European-language translations.
For Huizinga, the fourteenth- and...

"Here is the first full translation into English of one of the 20th century's few undoubted classics of history." --Washington Post Book World
The Autumn of the Middle Ages is Johan Huizinga's classic portrait of life, thought, and art in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century France and the Netherlands. Few who have read this book in English realize that The Waning of the Middle Ages, the only previous translation, is vastly different from the original Dutch, and incompatible will all other European-language translations.
For Huizinga, the fourteenth- and...

In this very readable biography, a noted scholar traces Erasmus's youth, his years as an itinerant scholar, sojourns in England, France, Switzerland, and Italy, friendship with Sir Thomas More, and disputes with Martin Luther. The author also probes Erasmus's mind and character and discusses his writings.

In Homo Ludens, the classic evaluation of play that has become a -must-read- for those in game design, Dutch philosopher Johan Huizinga defines play as the central activity in flourishing societies. Like civilization, play requires structure and participants willing to create within limits. Starting with Plato, Huizinga traces the contribution of Homo Ludens, or -Man the player- through Medieval Times, the Renaissance, and into our modern civilization. Huizinga defines play against a rich theoretical background, using cross-cultural examples from the humanities, business, and...

Desiderius Erasmus (ca. 1466 - 1536), the illegitimate child of a Rotterdam priest and a physician's daughter, grew up to become the greatest figure in the northern Renaissance and one of the most celebrated men in Europe--a scholar of such vast learning, sacred and secular, that both royalty and universities petitioned for his services. In this painstakingly researched and well-written biography, a noted scholar traces the life and works of Erasmus from the depths of monastic obscurity to his prominent role as one of the leading humanists of the day, and a central figure of the Reformation....

Ein Meisterwerk der Geschichtsschreibung, dem die aktuelle Kultur- und Mentalitätsgeschichte wesentliche Impulseverdankt.Das Gesamtporträt nordischer Spätgotik zählt zu den bedeutendsten Werken der Kulturgeschichtsschreibung, anwissenschaftlichem Rang, Glanz der Darstellung und der Weite des Blicks nur mit den klassischen Werken Jacob Burckhardts vergleichbar. Inpackender Anschaulichkeit schildert Huizinga Mensch und Gesellschaft, Geist und Leben, Kunst und Literatur, Frömmigkeit und Glaube derburgundisch-flämisch-niederländischen Welt des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts. Die höchst...

Ein grundlegendes Element unsere Kultur ist das Spiel. Der Mensch ist ein Spieler - und ohne seine Lust und Fhigkeit zum Spielen htten sich ganze Bereiche seiner Kultur nicht entwickelt: die Dichtung, das Recht, die Wissenschaft, die bildende Kunst, die Philosophie und andere. Johan Huizinga, der groe hollndische Historiker und Kulturphilosoph, hat in diesem Buch eine Theorie der Kultur entworfen, in der er dem Denker (homo sapiens) und dem Ttigen (homo faber) den Menschen als Spieler (homo ludens) an die Seite stellt.