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By Sigrid Undset

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The Waning of the Middle Ages spo-default The modern era willed forBy Johan Huizinga The Waning of the Middle Ages The Middle Ages: Neither the best of times nor the worst of times. Huizinga paints a portrait of the conventions and customs of life in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries as they reflect an autumnal waningherfsttijof the Middle Ages ideals. Considering theology and mysticism, politics and statesmanship, poetry and painting, marriage and love, Huizinga presents this period in France and the