The smell of blood and roses

Type de document :

Work (including critical edition and translation)

Titre :

The smell of blood and roses

Title supplement:

Rereading Johan Huizinga today

Publisher:

Northern Presses

Place of publication:

Villeneuve d’Ascq

Publication date:

2019

Discipline(s) HAL :

Human and Social Sciences/History

Résumé :

Scholars specializing in the late Middle Ages and the Low Countries provide keys to understanding the essence of Johan Huizinga’s Autumn of the Middle Ages. Still relevant for its impressive power of …
Read more >Scholars specializing in the late Middle Ages and the Low Countries provide reading keys to grasp the essence of Johan Huizinga’s Autumn of the Middle Ages. Still relevant for its impressive power of suggestion, the masterpiece by the great Dutch intellectual, published in 1919 and translated into French in 1932, is aimed at all those – literary scholars, philosophers, historians and art historians – who have been able to identify in this book another way of thinking and writing the history of the northern 15th century. Particularly focused on forms of life and thought, Huizinga’s writing can be disconcerting for an audience of researchers attached to a more rational methodology. The reflections gathered here allow us to take stock of the reasons that make this work, controversial as it may be, a reference but also a treasure trove of inspirations and intuitions that are still as stimulating after a century of existence.Read less >

Summary in English: [en]

For the first time in France, researchers specialized in the Middle Ages came together to discuss and offer new keys to capture the essence of an internationally successful classic: The Autumn of the Middle Ages by Johan Huizinga.For the first time in France, researchers specialized in the Middle Ages came together to discuss and offer new keys to capture the essence of an internationally successful classic: The Autumn of the Middle Ages by Johan Huizinga.Read less >

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Establishment(s):

CNRS
University of Lille

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