Autumn of the Middle Ages

Huizinga's brilliant portrait of life, thought, and art in 14th- and 15th-century France and the Netherlands. For Huizinga, this period marked not the birth of a dramatically new era in history--the Renaissance--but the fullest, ripest phase of medieval life and thought. This is the first translation of the complete text of this classic work into English, and it includes Huizinga's prefaces, with his comments on the book's title and his thoughts on translations. Several notes clarify Huizinga's references to paintings, sculpture, and carvings, some little known, and to things which would be common knowledge only to Dutch readers. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.