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: Huizinga, Johan.
Contributor(s): Hopman, Frederik Jan [translator.].
Publisher: London : E. Arnold & Co., 1924, (2016)Description: viii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781614279433; 1614279438.Uniform titles: Herfsttij der middeleeuwen. English Subject(s): Civilization, Medieval | Art, Medieval -- France -- Netherlands | Middle Ages | France -- Social life and customs. -- 14th century -- 15th century | Netherlands -- Social life and customs. -- 14th century -- 15th centuryDDC classification: 940.19 HUIItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 940.19 HUI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0062562 |
Published in the original in 1919. Translated by F. Hopman. Reprinted by Martino Publishing.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-318) and index.
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.