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J. Huizinga; trans. F. Hopman.
The Waning of the Middle Ages: A Study of the Forms of Life, Thought, and Art in France and the Netherlands in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries.
Published Harmondsworth: Penguin , 1972 reissue (previously issued 1955; original edn. was 1924).
Series: Pelican Books.
ISBN 0140203079.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Hazell Watson & Viney, Aylesbury.
Size: 130x191x19mm.
Page count: 344pp.
Main language: English; quotations usually translated at foot of page.
Overall condition fair: this copy looks rather battered, covers scuffed and creased, edges and corners worn and rubbed; the spine is scuffed and slightly curved, but not noticeably creased from reading; pages yellowed with age; at least 147 pages have some inked marks or annotations.
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Benediction classics edn. in print at £16.99]
Weight without packaging: 270g.
Contents: The violent tenor of life; Pessimism & the ideal of the sublime life; Hierarchic conception of society; Idea of chivalry; Dream of heroism & of love; Orders of chivalry & vows; Political & military value of chivalrous ideas; Love formalized; Conventions of love; Idyllic vision of life; Vision of death; Religious thought crystallizing into images; Types of religious life; Religious sensibility & religious imagination; Symbolism in its decline; Effects of realism; Religious thought beyond the limits of imagination; Forms of thought & practical life; Art & life; Aesthetic sentiment; Verbal & plastic expression compared; Advent of the new form.
Notes: no
Tables: no
Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 11pp
Index: yes
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