Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Translator’s note vii
4. Autumntide of the Middle Ages by Johan Hui
5. Preface to the first edition 3
6. Preface to the second edition 4
7. Preface to the third edition 5
8. Preface to the fourth edition 5
9. Preface to the fifth edition 6
10. Table of Contents 7
11. CHAPTER 1 Life’s Fierceness 9
12. CHAPTER 2 The Yearning for a Finer Life 31
13. CHAPTER 3 The Hierarchical Conception of Society 57
14. CHAPTER 4 The Notion of Knighthood 67
15. CHAPTER 5 Dreams of Heroic Deeds and Love 77
16. CHAPTER 6 Chivalric Orders and Knightly Vows 85
17. CHAPTER 7 Significance of the Chivalric Ideal in Warfare and Statecraft 95
18. CHAPTER 8 The Stylization of Love 109
19. CHAPTER 9 The Proprieties of Love 123
20. CHAPTER 10 The Idyllic Image of Life 131
21. CHAPTER 11 The Image of Death 143
22. CHAPTER 12 The Representation of All Things Holy 159
23. CHAPTER 13 Types of Religious Life 185
24. CHAPTER 14 Religious Emotion and the Religious Imagination 199
25. CHAPTER 15 Symbolism Withered 211
26. CHAPTER 16 Realism and the Defeat of the Imagination in Mysticism 223
27. CHAPTER 17 Forms of Thought in Practical Life 237
28. CHAPTER 18 Art in Life 257
29. CHAPTER 19 The Sense of Beauty 279
30. CHAPTER 20 The Image and the Word 287
31. CHAPTER 21 The Word and the Image 315
32. CHAPTER 22 The Coming of the New Form 335
33. Notes 347
34. Original Citations 383
35. Genealogy of the House of Burgundy 402
36. Timeline 405
37. Index 413
38. EPILOGUE From Herfsttij to Autumntide 427
39. Notes 455
40. Bibliography 465
41. Translated sources consulted 485
42. About the translator and editors 487