Court and Culture - Dutch Literature, 1350-1450

"While being compared favorably to Johan Huizinga's Waning of the Middle Ages, this is in fact a livelier, more convincing analysis of the late fourteenth century."—Johan P. Snapper, University of California, Berkeley

About the author

Frits Pieter van Oostrom is Professor of Literature at the Rijksuniversiteit, Leiden. Court and Culture received the prestigious Wijnaendts Francken-prijs in 1988. Arnold J. Pomerans lives in England and is the translator of The Diary of Anne Frank: The Critical Edition, among other works.

Summary

Our common image of the Middle Ages, constructed partly from popular accounts by Tuchman and Huizinga, is a period in European history when cultural activity was in decay. This title convincingly challenges this notion by presenting evidence of a lively medieval court culture in the northern Netherlands.

Product details

• Authors: F. P. van Oostrom, Frits Pieter Van Oostrom, Frits Pieter Van Oostrom
• Assisted by: James H. Marrow (Foreword), Marrow James H. (Foreword), Arnold Pomerans (Translation), Arnold J. Pomerans (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.11.1992
• EAN: 9780520067776
• ISBN: 978-0-520-06777-6
• No. of pages: 392
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, CE period up to c 1500, Netherlands, Dutch, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Social and cultural history, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval