The waning of the Middle Ages
Subtitle: a study of the forms of life, thought, and art in France and the Netherlands in the XIVth and XVth centuries
By: by J. Huizinga.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1985
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; dut
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Civilization, Medieval; France -- Civilization -- 1328-1600; Netherlands -- Civilization
Description: From the Preface of the English translation...

 The present work deals with the history of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries regarded as a period of termination, as the close of the Middle Ages. Such a view of them presented itself to the author of this volume, whilst endeavouring to arrive at a genuine understanding of the art of the brothers Van Eyck and their contemporaries, that is to say, to grasp its meaning by seeing it in connection with the entire life of their times. Now the common feature of the various manifestations of civilization of that epoch proved to be inherent rather in that which links them to the past than in the germs which they contain of the future. The significance, not of the artists alone, but also of theologians, poets, chroniclers, princes and statesmen, could be best appreciated by considering them, not as the harbingers of a coming culture, but as perfecting and concluding the old.

This English edition is not a simple translation of the original Dutch (second edition 1921, first 1919), but the result of a work of adaptation, reduction and consolidation under the author's directions. The references, here left out, may be found in full in the original.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 309-318.
Reprint. Originally published: London : E. Arnold, 1924.
Translation of: Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen.
Includes index.
Table of contents: label: I
title: The Violent Tenor of Life
pagenum: 1; label: II
title: Pessimism and the Ideal of the Sublime Life
pagenum: 22; label: III
title: The Hierarchic Conception of Society
pagenum: 46; label: IV
title: The Idea of Chivalry
pagenum: 56; label: V
title: The Dream of Heroism and of Love
pagenum: 66; label: VI
title: Orders of Chivalry and Vows
pagenum: 74; label: VII
title: The Political and Military Value of Chivalrous Ideas
pagenum: 82; label: VIII
title: Love formalized
pagenum: 95; label: IX
title: The Conventions of Love
pagenum: 107; label: X
title: The Idyllic Vision of Life
pagenum: 115; label: XI
title: The Vision of Death
pagenum: 124; label: XII
title: Religious Thought crystallizing into Images
pagenum: 136; label: XIII
title: Types of Religious Life
pagenum: 160; label: XIV
title: Religious Sensibility and Religious Imagination
pagenum: 173; label: XV
title: Symbolism in its Decline
pagenum: 182; label: XVI
title: The Effects of Realism
pagenum: 195; label: XVII
title: Religious Thought beyond the Limits of Imagination
pagenum: 201; label: XVIII
title: The Forms of Thought and Practical Life
pagenum: 206; label: XIX
title: Art and Life
pagenum: 222; label: XX
title: The Æsthetic Sentiment
pagenum: 243; label: XXI
title: Verbal and Plastic Expression Compared. I
pagenum: 252; label: XXII
title: Verbal and Plastic Expression Compared. II
pagenum: 279; label: XXIII
title: The Advent of the New Form
pagenum: 297; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 309; title: Index
pagenum: 319