The Waning of the Middle Ages: A Study of the Forms of Life, Thought and Art in France and the Netherlands in the XIVth and XVth Centuries, Volume 10 |
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Page 18 - So violent and motley was life, that it bore the mixed smell of blood and of roses. The men of that time always oscillate between the fear of hell and the most naive joy, between cruelty and tenderness, between harsh asceticism and insane attachment to the delights of this world, between hatred and goodness, always running to extremes
Page 9 - At the end of the fourteenth century and at the beginning of the fifteenth, the political stage of the Kingdoms of Europe was so crowded with fierce and tragic conflicts that the peoples could not help seeing all that regards royalty as a succession of sanguinary and romantic events (5, p.
Page 1 - To the world when it was half a thousand years younger, the outlines of all things seemed more clearly marked than to us. The contrast between suffering and joy, between adversity and happiness, appeared more striking. All experience had yet to the minds of men the directness and absoluteness of the pleasure and pain of child-life.
Page 135 - The dominant thought, as expressed in the literature, both ecclesiastical and lay, of the period, hardly knew anything with regard to death but these two extremes: lamentation about the briefness of all earthly glory, and jubilation over the salvation of the soul.
Page 64 - A great sweet feeling of loyalty and of pity fills your heart on seeing your friend so valiantly exposing his body to execute and accomplish the command of our Creator.
Page 133 - La mort le fait fremir, pallir, Le nez courber, les vaines tendre Le col enfler, la chair mollir, Joinctes et nerfs croistre et estendre.
Page 308 - The fifteenth century in France and the Netherlands is still medieval at heart. The diapason of life had not yet changed. Scholastic thought, with symbolism and strong formalism, the thoroughly dualistic conception of life and the world still dominated. The two poles of the mind continued to be chivalry and hierarchy. Profound pessimism spread a general gloom over life. The gothic principle prevailed in art. But all these forms and modes were on the wane. A high and strong culture is declining, but...
Page 185 - ... But this similarity will only have a mystic meaning if the middle-term connecting the two terms of the symbolic concept expresses an essentiality common to both; in other words, if redness and whiteness are something more than names for physical differences based on quantity, if they are conceived of as essences, as realities.
Page 117 - Soubz feuille vert, sur herbe delitable Lez ru bruiant et prez clere fontaine, Trouvay fichee une borde portable. llec mengeoit Gontier o dame Helayne Fromage frais, laict, burre, fromaigee, Craime, matton, pomme, nois, prune, poire, Aulx et oignons, escaillongne froyee Sur crouste bise, au gros sel, pour mieuk boire. Au goumer beurent et oisillon harpoient Pour resbaudir et le dru et la drue, Qui par amours apres s'entrebaisoient Et bouche et nez, polie et bien barbue.
Page 128 - Qu'est devenu ce front poly, Cheveulx blons, ces sourcils voultiz, Grant entrœil, ce regart joly, Dont prenoie les plus soubtilz; Ce beau nez droit grant ne petiz; Ces petites joinctes oreilles, Menton fourchu, cler vis traictiz, Et ces belles lèvres vermeilles?