Autumntide of the Middle Ages

Autumntide of the Middle Ages

A study of forms of life and thought of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in France and the Low Countries

  • Autor: Huizinga, Johan; Webb, Diane; Small, Graeme; van der Lem, Anton; van der Lem, Anton
  • Editor: Leiden University Press
  • ISBN: 9789087284459
  • eISBN Pdf: 9789400604841
  • Lloc de publicació:  Holland , Netherlands
  • Any de publicació digital: 2024
  • Mes: Febrer
  • Pàgines: 500
  • Idioma: Anglés
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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