Johan Huizinga · 1919
24 chapters · 115,014 words
Preface
The Violent Tenor of Life
Pessimism and the Ideal of the Sublime Life
The Hierarchic Conception of Society
The Idea of Chivalry
The Dream of Heroism and of Love
Orders of Chivalry and Vows
The Political and Military Value of Chivalrous Ideas
Love Formalized
The Conventions of Love
The Idyllic Vision of Life
The Vision of Death
Religious Thought Crystallizing into Images
Types of Religious Life
Religious Sensibility and Religious Imagination
Symbolism in Its Decline
The Effects of Realism
Religious Thought Beyond the Limits of Imagination
The Forms of Thought and Practical Life
Art and Life
The Aesthetic Sentiment
Verbal and Plastic Expression Compared (I)
Verbal and Plastic Expression Compared (II)
The Advent of the New Form