The book of the Netherlands historian of culture Johan Huizinga, first time published in 1919, sustained already more than twenty editions in the homeland, was translated into many languages and became the outstanding cultural phenomenon of the XX century. In Russia leaves the fifth, newly seen and the revised edition with the detailed scientific device.

The Autumn of the Middle Ages considers a sociocultural phenomenon of the late Middle Ages with the detailed characteristic of court, knightly and church urbanism, life of all sectors of society. The literary and art works of the Burgundian authors of the XIV-XV centuries, religious treatises, folklore and era documents served as the sources.