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: J. Huizinga
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; ita
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780385092883
Subjects: Civilization; Medieval Civilization; Middle Ages
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1949.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-350) and index.
Table of contents: title: The violent tenor of life; title: Pessimism and the ideal of the sublime life; title: The hierarchic conception of society; title: The idea of chivalry; title: The dream of heroism and of love; title: Orders of chivalry and vows; title: The political and military value of chivalrous ideas; title: Love formalized; title: The conventions of love; title: The idyllic vision of life; title: The vision of death; title: Religious thought crystallizing into images; title: Types of religious lif e; title: Religious sensibility and religious imagination; title: Symbolsim in its decline; title: The effects of realism; title: Religious thought beyond the limits of imagination; title: The forms of thought and practical life; title: Art and life; title: The ©sthetic sentiment; title: Verbal and plastic expression compared (I); title: Verbal and plastic expression compared (II); title: The advent of the new form.