Johan Huizinga (Author of The Waning of the Middle Ages)

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Johan Huizinga

Born

in Groningen, Netherlands

December 07, 1872

Died

February 01, 1945

Genre

Nonfiction, History, Humanities

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Johan Huizinga was a Dutch historian and one of the founders of modern cultural history.

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	The Waning of the Middle Ages 4.03 avg rating — 4,217 ratings — published 1919 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture 3.99 avg rating — 2,803 ratings — published 1938 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Erasmus and the Age of Reformation 3.82 avg rating — 238 ratings — published 1924 — 106 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Shadow of Tomorrow 4.08 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 1935 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nederlands beschaving in de zeventiende eeuw 3.77 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1941 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Geschonden Wereld 3.81 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1945 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Men and Ideas: History, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance 3.68 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1959 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	De lo l煤dico y lo serio by Johan Huizinga, Goedele De Sterck (Translator), Pedro Aull贸n de Haro (Foreword) 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El concepto de la historia y otros ensayos (Seccion De Obras De Historia) 3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Course of Civilizations 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child's soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man's wisdom for the child's.”
― Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture

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“All play means something.”
― Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture

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“Our point of departure must be the conception of an almost childlike play-sense expressing itself in various play-forms, some serious, some playful, but all rooted in ritual and productive of culture by allowing the innate human need of rhythm, harmony, change, alternation, contrast and climax, etc., to unfold in full richness.”
― Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture

tags: play, rhythm, ritual

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