Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen
The Autumn of the Middle Ages
Johan Huizinga · 1872 – 1945
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Huizinga looked at fourteenth- and fifteenth-century France and the Low Countries and saw not a dawn but an ending: a culture of extreme contrasts, ritual, chivalric fantasy and pictured death, in the age of the Van Eyck brothers. He works from chronicles, sermons and paintings rather than charters. Some of its broad claims are disputed, but it changed what historians think counts as evidence.