J Huizinga: 1 book
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
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
“To the world when it was half a thousand years younger,” Huizinga begins, “the outline of all things seemed more clearly marked than to us.” Life seemed to consist in extremes—a fierce religious asceticism and an unrestrained licentiousness, ferocious judicial punishments and great popular...
