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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 / J. Huizinga ; translated [from the Dutch] by F. Hopman.

By: Huizinga, Johan, 1872-1945.
Contributor(s): Hopman, Frederik.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Peregrine books.Publisher: Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1971Description: 344 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 0140550550.Subject(s): Civilization, Medieval | France -- Civilization | Netherlands -- CivilizationDDC classification: 909

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A reappearance of Huizinga's (1872-1945) controversial classic arguing that the Middle Ages were not simple a marking of time between the Roman Empire and the Renaissance that of course vanished as soon as people found something interesting to do. Rather, he says Medieval culture was distinct and vital, declined through internal processes, and was

Bibliography: p.319-329. - Includes index.

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