romanticism, a world disguised in the fantastic gear of the 
Round Table.”

     The magnificent Hollywood sets which Huizinga provides 
as an image of the medieval decline blend perfectly with the 
evocations of the ancient world done by the Medici craftsmen. 
What Huizinga may have chosen to disregard was the rise of 
middle-class wealth and skill and organization which made 
possible both the splendors of the Dukes of Burgundy and of 
the Medicis. He says of the great Dukes (p. 41):

          The court was pre-eminently the field where this 
     aestheticism flourished. Nowhere did it attain to greater 
     development than at the court of the dukes of Burgundy, 
     which was more pompous and better arranged than that 
     of the kings of France. It is well known how much