The waning of the Middle Ages : a study of the forms of life, thought, and art in France and the Netherlands in the XIVth and XVth centuries
Print Book, English, [1985], ©1924
St. Martin's Press, New York, [1985], ©1924
viii, 328 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780312855406, 0312855400
8542044
The violent tenor of life
Pessimism and the ideal of the sublime life
The hierarchic conception of society
The idea of chivalry
The dream of heroism and of love
Orders of chivalry and vows
The political and military value of chivalrous ideas
Love formalized
The conventions of love
The idyllic version of life
The vision of death
Religious thoughts crystallizing into images
Types of religious life
Religious sensibility and religious imagination
Symbolism in its decline
The effects of realism
Religious thought beyond the limits of imagination
The forms of thought and practical life
Art and life
The aesthetic sentiment
Verbal and plastic expression compared (I)
Verbal and plastic expression compared (II)
The advent of the new form
Reprint. Originally published: London : E. Arnold, 1924
Translation of: Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen