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    Johan Huizinga (Dutch: [ˈjoːɦɑn ˈɦœyzɪŋɣaː]; 7 December 1872 – 1 February 1945) was a Dutch historian and one of the founders of modern cultural history...
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    Homo Ludens (category Books by Johan Huizinga)
    historian and cultural theorist Johan Huizinga. It discusses the importance of the play element of culture and society. Huizinga suggests that play is primary...
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  • singer Johan Huizinga, Dutch historian John Huizinga, Dutch physical anthropologist Mark Huizinga, Dutch judoka and Olympic gold medalist Tineke Huizinga, Dutch...
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    Waning of the Middle Ages by Johan Huizinga." Daedalus 1974 103(1): 35–43. ISSN 0011-5266; R. L. Colie, "Johan Huizinga and the Task of Cultural History...
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    The Autumn of the Middle Ages (category Books by Johan Huizinga)
    in 1932), is the best-known work by the Dutch historian Johan Huizinga. In the book, Huizinga presents the idea that the exaggerated formality and romanticism...
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    ceremonial and rules of etiquette in the 14th century that was examined by Johan Huizinga in The Waning of the Middle Ages, which dedicates a chapter to "The...
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    Dukes of Burgundy were the creators of a Burgundian or Belgian nation. Johan Huizinga reused the concept out of convenience at the beginning of the 20th century...
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  • domains of cultural history or philosophy. The lecture is in honour of Johan Huizinga, a distinguished Dutch historian (1872–1945) who worked in the first...
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    (Warsaw 2010) Three people at a dive bar (Boston 2023) According to Johan Huizinga, fun is "an absolutely primary category of life, familiar to everybody...
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    Dutch cultural historian Johan Huizinga argued that games were a primary condition of the generation of human cultures. Huizinga saw the playing of games...
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    1904. List of dragons in popular culture List of fictional princesses Johan Huizinga, The Autumn of the Middle Ages p 83 ISBN 0-226-35992-1 Northrop Frye...
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    resulting in a bourgeois class with leisure time to devote to the arts. Johan Huizinga (1872–1945) acknowledged the existence of the Renaissance but questioned...
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    pp. xi–xvi (11–16). Johan Huizinga, The Waning of the Middle Ages (1919) 1924:75. Doulton, op. cit., pp. 360–361 Johan Huizinga, The Waning of the Middle...
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  • One of the most important historical writers of the 20th century was Johan Huizinga, who is known abroad and translated in different languages and included...
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    'religion' of the Golden Fleece, of a knight 'of the religion of Avys'".Johan Huizinga, The Waning of the Middle Ages (1919) 1924:75. "Religio". Latin Word...
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  • Echoes of Burkhardt's approach in the 20th century can be seen in Johan Huizinga's The Waning of the Middle Ages (1919). Most often the focus is on phenomena...
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    history, Burckhardt (in common with later Dutch cultural historian Johan Huizinga) saw himself as working in the tradition of the French romantic historian...
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    writers and moralists of the 14th and 15th centuries. The historian Johan Huizinga has written: "It is astonishing that the Church, which so rigorously...
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    Jacques de Longuyon in his Voeux du Paon (1312). Their selection, as Johan Huizinga pointed out, betrays a close connection with the romance genre of chivalry...
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    in which the 14th century excelled." With a historian's hindsight Johan Huizinga remarked upon "the lamentable consequences of statecraft recklessly...
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  • play. (Homo Ludens is the title of a book by the great Dutch historian Johan Huizinga.) In the New Babylon, the bourgeois shackles of work, family life, and...
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  • The authors borrow the term magic circle from the book Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga, using it to describe the space within which a game takes place. They...
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    Archived from the original on January 2, 2015. Retrieved August 9, 2021. Johan Huizinga remarks in his book The Waning of the Middle Ages, "the source of the...
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  • committed suicide after the Allied forces captured Leipzig. 1945 – Johan Huizinga died in De Steeg in Gelderland, near Arnhem, where he was held in detention...
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  • critically on the theories of Johan Huizinga, adding a more comprehensive review of play forms. Caillois disputes Huizinga's emphasis on competition in play...
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  • Dutch Civilisation in the Seventeenth Century (category Books by Johan Huizinga)
    zeventiende eeuw) is a book published in Dutch by the Dutch historian Johan Huizinga in 1941. It was first translated into English by Arnold Pomerans in...
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  • world's largest collection of works by and about Lewis Courtly love Johan Huizinga D. W. Robertson Jr. Lewis, C.S. (1952). Mere Christianity. New York:...
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    on elaborate temporary stands along the path of the main procession. Johan Huizinga, in The Autumn of the Middle Ages, describes the use and design of tableaux...
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    1945 without having been nominated for the prize. The Dutch historian Johan Huizinga and Austrian-Bohemian author Franz Werfel died months before the announcement...
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    history. In the twentieth century, this trend gave rise to the works of Johan Huizinga, Marc Bloch, and Fernand Braudel, who pioneered the study of long-term...
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