The waxing of the Middle Ages : revisiting late medieval France / Edited by Tracy Adams and Charles-Louis Morand-Métivier.

"Johan Huizinga's much-loved and much-contested Autumn of the Middle Ages, first published in 1919, encouraged an image of the Late French Middle Ages as a flamboyant but empty period of decline and nostalgia. Many studies, particularly literary studies, have challenged Huizinga's per...

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