Men and ideas
Subtitle: history, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance : essays
By: by Johan Huizinga ; translated by James S. Holmes and Hans van Marle
Series: Harper torchbooks
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1970
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; dut
Number of pages: 378
Subjects: History
Other titles: Men & ideas
Notes: "TB1518"--Cover.

On cover: Men & ideas.

"Translated from texts in Verzamelde werken (1948-53)"--T.p . verso.

Includes bibliographical references: (p. 343-370) and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: 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.