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The Waning of the Middle Ages
A Study of the Forms of Life, Thought and Art in France and the Netherlands in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
By J. Huizinga · 1998
Back to CatalogueFirst published in 1919, this study of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century France and the Burgundian Netherlands argues that late medieval culture was an autumn of overripe forms. Huizinga reads chronicles, court ceremony, chivalric vows, sermons, the danse macabre, and the painting of van Eyck as evidence of extreme religious feeling, violent contrast, and a hunger for symbol. Politics and war appear as they shape that mood rather than as a campaign narrative. The book is a cultural history of an age's forms of feeling, not a constitutional history of France.
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7 Subjects| No. | Volume Title | Page Count |
|---|---|---|
| Vol. 1 | The Birth of the Middle Ages 395-814 | — |
| Vol. 2 | The Crucible of the Middle Ages, the Ninth and Tenth Centuries in European History | — |
| Vol. 3 | The Making of the Middle Ages | — |
| Vol. 4 | The High Middle Ages 1150-1309 | — |
| Vol. 5 | The Waning of the Middle Ages, a Study of the Forms of Life, Thought and Art in France and the Netherlands in the Fourteenth Century | — |
Bound in red cloth, cover decorated in purple and gilt. Dark green slipcase.
| Printing | Print Year | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1st Printing | 1998 | — |
| 2nd Printing | 1999 | — |