Johan Huizinga Quotes


It is an evil world. The fires of hatred and violence burn fiercely. Evil is powerful, the devil covers a darkened earth with hisblack wings. And soon the end of the world is expected. But mankind does not repent, the church struggles, and the preachers and poets warn and lament in vain.


Citations

Huizinga, Johan. The Waning of the Middle Ages. Translated by F. Hopman, Edward Arnold & Co., 1924, p. 22.

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Johan Huizinga
Johan Huizinga
  • Born: December 7, 1872
  • Died: February 1, 1945
  • Nationality: Dutch
  • Profession: Historian, Professor, Writer

Johan Huizinga was a Dutch historian and one of the founders of modern cultural history.