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 Johan Huizinga

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

Johan Huizinga

328 pages • first pub 1919 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Brilliant study of art, life and thought in France and the Netherlands during the 14th and 15th centuries explores the period's splendor and simplicity; courtesy and cruelty; its idyllic vision of life; despair and mysticism; religious, artistic, ...

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