This new English translation of Huizinga’s 'Autumntide of the Middle Ages' ('Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen') celebrates the centenary of a book that still ranks as one of the most perceptive and influential analyses of the late medieval period.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Translator’s note
- Huizinga’s prefaces to the first five Dutch editions
- Chapter 1. Life’s Fierceness
- Chapter 2. The Yearning for a Finer Life
- Chapter 3. The Hierarchical Conception of Society
- Chapter 4. The Notion of Knighthood
- Chapter 5. Dreams of Heroic Deeds and Love
- Chapter 6. Chivalric Orders and Knightly Vows
- Chapter 7. Significance of the Chivalric Ideal in Warfare and Statecraft
- Chapter 8. The Stylization of Love
- Chapter 9. The Proprieties of Love
- Chapter 10. The Idyllic Image of Life
- Chapter 11. The Image of Death
- Chapter 12. The Representation of All Things Holy
- Chapter 13. Types of Religious Life
- Chapter 14. Religious Emotion and the Religious Imagination
- Chapter 1. Symbolism Withered
- Chapter 16. Realism and the Defeat of the Imagination in Mysticism
- Chapter 17. Forms of Thought in Practical Life
- Chapter 18. Art in Life
- Chapter 19. The Sense of Beauty
- Chapter 20. The Image and the Word
- Chapter 21. The Word and the Image
- Chapter 22. The Coming of the New Form
- Notes
- Original Citations
- Genealogy of the House of Burgundy
- Timeline
- Index
- Epilogue
- From Herfsttij to Autumntide
- Bibliography
- Translated Sources Consulted
- About the Translator and Editors
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