Johan Huizinga Quote

Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

Men and Ideas: History, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance (ed. Princeton University Press, 2014) - ISBN: 9781400858088

Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily...

Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily...

Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily...

Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily...