Title: Men and ideas : history, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance; essays /
Authors: Huizinga, Johan, 1872-1945; Holmes, James S.; Marle, Hans van,
Publisher: Meridian Books,
Year: 1959
Subjects: History.; Middle Ages.; Renaissance.; Culture history.
Abstract: "Translated from texts in 'Verzamelde werken' (1948-53)"
Contents: Introduction / by Bert F. Hoselitz -- I. History -- The task of cultural history -- Historical ideals of life -- Patriotism and nationalism in European history -- II. The Middle Ages -- John of Salisbury: a pre-Gothic mind -- Abelard -- The political and military significance of chivalric ideas in the late Middle Ages -- Bernard Shaw's Saint -- III. The Renaissance -- The problem of the Renaissance -- Renaissance and realism -- In commemoration of Erasmus -- Grotius and his time.