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from the vagrant population, from which at the same
period the first merchants and the artisans of the towns
were being recruited, or from among the inhabitants of
the great estates, whose serfdom they thus shook off.
(p. 69)
The medieval world ended in a frenzy of applied knowledge—
new medieval knowledge applied to the recreation of antiquity.
* The great study of The Waning of the Middle Ages by J.
Huizinga is almost entirely concerned with the feudal nobility,
whose tenure had been greatly modified by the medieval
guildsmen, and was to be quite diminished by the middle class
that later came with typography. In many ways, Huizinga is
baffled by the medieval world as much as Heinrich Wolfflin was
by medieval art. Both men hit upon the idea of applying to it