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The autumn of the Middle Ages, Johan Huizinga ; translated by Rodney J. Payton and Ulrich Mammitzsch

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The autumn of the Middle Ages, Johan Huizinga ; translated by Rodney J. Payton and Ulrich Mammitzsch

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 441-449) and index

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A portrait of life, thought and art in 14th- and 15th-century France and the Netherlands.

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The autumn of the Middle Ages

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bibliography

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55575832704570

Responsibility statement

Johan Huizinga ; translated by Rodney J. Payton and Ulrich Mammitzsch

Table Of Contents

The passionate intensity of life -- The craving for a more beautiful life -- The heroic dream -- The forms of love -- The vision of death -- The depiction of the sacred -- The pious personality -- Religious excitation and religious fantasy -- The decline of symbolism -- The failure of imagination -- The forms of thought in practice -- Art in life -- Image and word -- The coming of the new form

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