{"product_id":"autumn-of-the-middle-ages","title":"Autumn of the Middle Ages","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eAutumn of the Middle Ages\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJohan Huizinga\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e0226359921\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eUniversity of Chicago Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1996\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e467\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\"Here is the first full translation into English of one of the 20th century's few undoubted classics of history.\" -\u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Autumn of the Middle Ages\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Waning of the Middle Ages, \u003c\/i\u003e the only previous translation, is vastly different from the original Dutch, and incompatible will all other European-language translations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For Huizinga, the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century marked not the birth of a dramatically new era in history-the Renaissance-but the fullest, ripest phase of medieval life and thought. However, his work was criticized both at home and in Europe for being \"old-fashioned\" and \"too literary\" when \u003ci\u003eThe Waning of the Middle Ages\u003c\/i\u003e was first published in 1919. In the 1924 translation, Fritz Hopman adapted, reduced and altered the Dutch edition-softening Huizinga's passionate arguments, dulling his nuances, and eliminating theoretical passages. He dropped many passages Huizinga had quoted in their original old French. Additionally, chapters were rearranged, all references were dropped, and mistranslations were introduced. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This translation corrects such errors, recreating the second Dutch edition which represents Huizinga's thinking at its most important stage. Everything that was dropped or rearranged has been restored. Prose quotations appear in French, with translations preprinted at the bottom of the page, mistranslations have been corrected. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"The advantages of the new translation are so many. . . . It is one of the greatest, as well as one of the most enthralling, historical classics of the twentieth century, and everyone will surely want to read it in the form that was obviously intended by the author.\" -Francis Haskell, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A once pathbreaking piece of historical interpretation. . . . This new translation will no doubt bring Huizinga and his pioneering work back into the discussion of historical interpretation.\" -Rosamond McKitterick, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Autumn of the Middle Ages | Johan Huizinga | Hardcover | 0226359921 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks E 1742689","offer_id":48180122878104,"sku":"1742689","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/613tDS5inAL.jpg?v=1772212284","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/autumn-of-the-middle-ages","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}