Visions of Culture by Karl Joachim Weintraub

Virtue of the sacraments, basked in the radiance of the divine mystery.īut even the lesser events – a journey, labor, a visit – wereĪccompanied by a multitude of blessings, ceremonies, sayings, andĬonventions.' (from The Autumn of the Middle Ages )

Every event, every deed was defined in given and expressiveįorms and was in accord with the solemnity of marriage, death – by Much greater than for us every experience had that degree ofĭirectness and absoluteness that joy and sadness still have in the mind The distanceīetween sadness and joy, between good and bad fortune, seemed to be Younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. 'When the world was half a thousand years Like the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955), Johan Huizinga was a harsh critic of mass culture and technology. zip of the website is also available.ĭutch historian, whose most famous works include The Autumn of the Middle Ages (1919), which dealt with life, ideas, art, and behaviors of the upper classes of Burgundy in the 14th and 15th centuries, Erasmus (1924), a biography of the famous Dutch Renaissance scholar, and Homo Ludens (1938), focusing on the element of play in human culture. All pages are unmodified as they originally appeared some links and images may no longer function. The original website was published by Petri Liukkonen under Creative Commons BY-ND-NC 1.0 Finland and reproduced here under those terms for non-commercial use. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Visions of Culture by Karl Joachim Weintraub