El otoño de la Edad Media

eEstudios sobre la forma de la vida y del espiritu durante los siglos XIV y XV en Francia y en los Paises Bajos

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Johan Huizinga: El otoño de la Edad Media (Paperback, Spanish language, 2006, Torre de Goyanes)

Paperback, 551 pages

Spanish language

Published 2006 by Torre de Goyanes.

ISBN:
978-84-95101-36-5
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OCLC Number:
433947779

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From the Preface of the English translation...

The present work deals with the history of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries regarded as a period of termination, as the close of the Middle Ages. Such a view of them presented itself to the author of this volume, whilst endeavouring to arrive at a genuine understanding of the art of the brothers Van Eyck and their contemporaries, that is to say, to grasp its meaning by seeing it in connection with the entire life of their times. Now the common feature of the various manifestations of civilization of that epoch proved to be inherent rather in that which links them to the past than in the germs which they contain of the future. The significance, not of the artists alone, but also of theologians, poets, chroniclers, princes and statesmen, could be best appreciated by considering them, not as the harbingers of a …

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