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3 unusual facts about Johan Huizinga


Jean Le Maingre

There, he and his companions composed the Livre des Cent Ballades, a poetical defense of the chaste knight the central figure of chivalry, which Johan Huizinga found a startling contrast with the facts of his military career.

Johan Huizinga

He died in De Steeg in Gelderland, near Arnhem, just a few weeks before Nazi rule ended, and he lies buried in the graveyard of the Reformed Church at 6 Haarlemmerstraatweg in Oegstgeest.

His most famous work is The Autumn of the Middle Ages (a.k.a. The Waning of the Middle Ages) (1919).



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