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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