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Master of Death.(Review)
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. 296 pp.; 45 color ills., 145 b/w. $40.00
The universal phenomenon of death would seem to have no history, but we have learned better. Since the 1919 publication of Johan Huizinga's Autumn of the Middle Ages (recently reissued in a new and full translation by the University of Chicago Press), "The Vision of Death" has come to be associated quite closely with late medieval culture of the 14th and 15th centuries, shadowed by the outbreak of the Black Death in Europe. The two books under consideration here build knowledgeably for the same period upon the foundations of Huizinga and others, including the fuller history of death ...
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