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misery in churches. Every order and estate, every rank and
profession, was distinguished by its costume. The great
lords never moved about without a glorious display of
arms and liveries, exciting fear and envy. Executions and
other public acts of justice, hawking, marriages and
funerals, were all announced by cries and processions,
songs and music.
Associating the developments of five hundred years of
Gutenberg technology with uniformity, quiet privacy, and
individualism, Huizinga finds it easy to give us the pre-
Gutenberg world in terms of diversity, passionate group life,
and communal rituals. That is exactly what he does on page
40: “Here, then, we have attained a point of view from which
we can consider the lay culture of the waning Middle Ages;
aristocratic life decorated by ideal forms, gilded by chivalrous