Author: Huizinga, J.,
Title: The Waning of the Middle Ages: study of forms of life, thought & art in France & the Netherlands in 14th & 15th centuries.
Description: NY, Doubleday/Anchor, (1954). G PB. Edge wear. To the world 500 years ago, the outline of all things seems more clearly marked than to us. Fierce religious. asceticism & unrestrained licentiousness, ferocious judicial punishments & great popular waves of pity & mercy, horrible crimes & extravagant acts of saintliness. The most trenchant study of the crucial moment in history when the Middle Ages gave way to the great energy of the Renaissance.

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