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A paperback Pelican edition, 1972 of the classic study by the Dutch historian on ( to give the book its full subtitle) - A study of the forms of life , thought and art in France and the Netherlands in the dawn of the Renaissance ( the 14th and 15th centuries)
First published in 1924 in English ( and in the original Dutch in 1919) , it is not a chronicle or linear study of the period, , but an examination ( and a very influential one) of the ideas that underlay the European culture of the time, , ideas that held the medieval world together, supported religion and informed art and literature - fierce religious asceticism, unrestrained licentiousness, great popular waves of emotion , horrible crime and extravagant acts of saintliness.
In very good condition, it was covered in clear plastic contact type covering at some point, which , while not removable, was done well.
