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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 XIVth and XVth centuries / by J. Huizinga.
LIBRA DC33.2 .H83
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LIBRA DC33.2 .H83
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Huizinga, Johan, 1872-1945.
- Standardized Title:
- Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen. English
- Language:
- Dutch
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization, Medieval.
- Middle Ages.
- France--Social life and customs.
- France.
- Manners and customs.
- Netherlands--Social life and customs.
- Netherlands.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 328 pages : frontispiece, plates, portraits ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Edward Arnold & Co., 1924.
- Contents:
- The violent tenor of life
- Pessimism and the ideal of the sublime life
- The hierarchic conception of society
- The idea of chivalry
- The dream of heroism and of love
- Orders of chivalry and vows
- The political and military value of chivalrous ideas
- Love formalized
- The conventions of love
- The idyllic vision of life
- The vision of death
- Religious thought crystallizing into images
- Types of religious life
- Religious sensibility and religious imagination
- Symbolism in its decline
- The effects of realism
- Religious thought beyond the limits of imagination
- The forms of thought and practical life
- Art and life
- The aesthetic sentiment
- Verbal and plastic expression compared
- The advent of the New Form.
- Notes:
- Translated by F. Hopman. cf. Pref.
- Index: p. 319-328.
- Bibliography: pages 309-318.
- OCLC:
- 794600
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