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    Johan Huizinga (Dutch: [ˈjoːɦɑn ˈɦœyzɪŋɣaː]; 7 December 1872 – 1 February 1945) was a Dutch historian and one of the founders of modern cultural history...
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    Homo Ludens (category Books by Johan Huizinga)
    historian and cultural theorist Johan Huizinga. It discusses the importance of the play element of culture and society. Huizinga suggests that play is primary...
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  • singer Johan Huizinga, Dutch historian John Huizinga, Dutch physical anthropologist Mark Huizinga, Dutch judoka and Olympic gold medalist Tineke Huizinga, Dutch...
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    The Autumn of the Middle Ages (category Books by Johan Huizinga)
    in 1932), is the best-known work by the Dutch historian Johan Huizinga. In the book, Huizinga presents the idea that the exaggerated formality and romanticism...
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    Waning of the Middle Ages by Johan Huizinga." Daedalus 1974 103(1): 35–43. ISSN 0011-5266; R. L. Colie, "Johan Huizinga and the Task of Cultural History...
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    Dukes of Burgundy were the creators of a Burgundian or Belgian nation. Johan Huizinga reused the concept out of convenience at the beginning of the 20th century...
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    Dutch cultural historian Johan Huizinga argued that games were a primary condition of the generation of human cultures. Huizinga saw the playing of games...
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  • One of the most important historical writers of the 20th century was Johan Huizinga, who is known abroad and translated in different languages and included...
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    Jacques de Longuyon in his Voeux du Paon (1312). Their selection, as Johan Huizinga pointed out, betrays a close connection with the romance genre of chivalry...
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    resulting in a bourgeois class with leisure time to devote to the arts. Johan Huizinga (1872–1945) acknowledged the existence of the Renaissance but questioned...
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