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Johan Huizinga’s Russia

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Bžoch A.

Slovo a smysl - Word & Sense

2021

vol. 18

issue 37

43-57

This article deals with the changing views of Dutch historian Johan Huizinga (1872–1945) on such topics as Russian culture, 19th-century Russia, and the Soviet Union. While Huizinga did not count them among his core research interests (he never published an independent work on Russia or the Soviet Union), he remained preoccupied with these topics, particularly during the last phase of his life, in relation to his criticism of the declining forms of contemporary culture. Little has been made of the fact that Huizinga prepared a course on 19th-century Russia for students of history at the university of Groningen in 1914 (he taught the course in 1935/6 at Leiden). It was also in 1914 that he became interested in the idea of pan-Slavism in Russia and Central Europe. Huizinga’s unpublished lectures on Russia and pan-Slavism demonstrate his exceptional knowledge of history, surpassing that of his academic contemporaries. The lectures also show Huizinga’s critical attitude towards the political life of 19th-century Russia as well as the Soviet political experiment.

HOVORIŤ STRIEBRO: KONVERZAČNÁ KULTÚRA V NIZOZEMSKOM „ZLATOM VEKU“

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Bžoch A.

World Literature Studies

2022

vol. 14

issue 1

79 - 97

The boisterous conviviality we know from Dutch genre painting of the 17th century expresses only one side – albeit an important one – of the culture of conversation in the Dutch “Golden Age”. The author writes about what the ideal image and everyday life of conversation looked like in the Republic of the Seven United Provinces, the freest European country of the Baroque period. The picture of the multifaceted culture of communication in the Netherlands of the era can be shown by means of not only visual, but also rich literary material. Diaries, memoirs, correspondence, conduct manuals and, in many cases, literary works of the time show what rules governed free communication, what habitats were predominant in sociable conversation and what was permitted in it. However, it was not only great personalities of Dutch education such as Hugo Grotius or Constantijn Huygens Jr. who commented on the sociability of their time; impressive images of it were also provided by numerous foreigners who travelled to and admired the Netherlands.

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Johan Huizinga’s Russia

HOVORIŤ STRIEBRO: KONVERZAČNÁ KULTÚRA V NIZOZEMSKOM „ZLATOM VEKU“