A fine “Sunday suit” – The concept of Renaissance in the work of Johan Huizinga

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  • Naiara Damas Professora Adjunta do Departamento de História na Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF)

Abstract

This paper analyzes the concept of Renaissance developed throughout the intellectual trajectory of cultural historian Johan Huizinga (1872–1945), highlighting two important moments of its formulation, the composition of the Autumn of the Middle Ages (1919) and the biography of the humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam (1924). Through these works, as well as in essays on the debate around the Renaissance culture published by Huizinga in the 1920’s, it is possible to outline a set of questions indicating the elaboration of a Renaissance concept that refuses the “modern” image of the period, placing it instead in the horizon of the twilight years of the Late Middle Ages.

Palavras-chave: Johan Huizinga, Renaissance, Middle Ages, Cultural History.

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Published

2017-01-12

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Vol. 21 No. 1 (2017): January/April

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