Huizinga on the Overripe Fruits of Late Medieval Civilization

TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: Huizinga on the Overripe Fruits of Late Medieval Civilization

Saturday 07 December 2024 is the 152nd anniversary of the birth of Johan Huizinga (07 December 1872 – 01 February 1945), who was born in Groningen in the Netherlands on this date in 1872.

Huizinga’s The Autumn of the Middle Ages: A Study of the Forms of Life, Thought and Art in France and the Netherlands in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries is a classic of medieval historiography, already translated three times into English. It presents a distinctive thesis about the nature of late medieval history as producing “overripe fruits,” which not every civilization endures long enough to produce.

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