The book by the Dutch cultural historian Johan Huizinga, first published in 1919, has gone through more than two dozen editions in its homeland, has been translated into many languages and has become an outstanding cultural phenomenon of the 20th century. The fifth, newly reviewed and corrected edition with a detailed scientific apparatus is being published in Russia. Autumn of the Middle Ages examines the socio-cultural phenomenon of the late Middle Ages with a detailed description of court, knightly and church life, the life of all layers of society. The sources were literary and artistic works of Burgundian authors of the 14th–15th centuries, religious treatises, folklore and documents of the era.