For 10 points,name this home country of Johan Huizinga, who wrote about its native son Erasmus.
[Note to moderator: just in case you care, "Huizinga" is pronounced sort of like "HOW-tzin-guh"]A historian from this country began his most famous book by describing a time when people experiencedthe world with greater contrast: there was massive public wealth inequality, more extreme emotions, andformal rituals for even trivial occasions. A classic "literary" nineteenth-century history of this country waswritten by John Lothrop Motley. A historian from this country described his method as trying to view "themanifold forms and functions of civilization" "in the thick of events," in an essay collected in Men andIdeas. That historian from this country claimed that artists and writers of the early (*) fifteenth centurylacked imagination, and that their decadent courtly culture did not lead to, but was swept aside by theRenaissance. That historian from this country wrote "The Task of Cultural History" to explain the method of hisworks, like The Autumn of the Middle Ages. In a book from this country, the title character describes being raisedby Drunkenness and Ignorance, and praises the corruption and abuses of the Catholic Church. For 10 points,name this home country of Johan Huizinga, who wrote about its native son Erasmus.
[Note to moderator: just in case you care, "Huizinga" is pronounced sort of like "HOW-tzin-guh"]A historian from this country began his most famous book by describing a time when people experiencedthe world with greater contrast: there was massive public wealth inequality, more extreme emotions, andformal rituals for even trivial occasions.
The Netherlands [or Nederland; accept any answer with the word Dutch in it]