"The Autumn Of The Middle Ages"

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Analysis of Johan Huizenga's book. End of the Middle Ages, and the end of an era known as the Dark Ages. His thesis that the Middle Ages brought a negativity to love. The role of symbolism, and its use by the medieval Church; the lack of imagination. Anti-intellectualism of the period.

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"THE AUTUMN OF THE MIDDLE AGES

To most of us, this was a period often referred to as "The Dark Ages". It was a time of lean intellectual accomplishments. The only light at the end of any creative tunnel occurred in the monasteries. What had been attempted in the Holy Roman Empire of Charlemagne had not really lasted. But, the autumn of this period was really unlike the autumn of the seasons in the sense that it would lead to a cold winter. Instead, it led to the recovering of Man in the rebirth- the Renaissance- of thought, art, and prospects of a better, un-serf like existence even for the common man. But Huizenga, according to his editor here, does not see the 14th and 15th centuries as a bridge to the Renaissance. Instead ?as the end of the Middle Ages, as the age of medieval thought in its last phase of life, as a tree with overripe fruits, ..."

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