How To Use Medieval In A Sentence
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So that model is alive and well and in the minds of many people, rather than the later medieval, misogynous legislation.
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Hazel wore a medieval-styled dress with a gold-braced bodice, gold chiffon sleeves and a gold train.
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It likewise furthered the career of Mary Shelley as "The Author of Frankenstein," the rubric under which she continued her anonymous publication with a second novel immersed in medieval Italian history, Valperga: or, The Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca (1823).
Biography
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I see his sensibility as basically that of an earlier age: he is a chivalric knight devoted to his lady; this devotion is like that of a medieval Christian who lives in the world yet profoundly venerates the Virgin Mary.
Sena Jeter Naslund - An interview with author
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Its interest is that within it survive all the elements of a medieval forest: great timber trees, coppice woods, pollards, scrub, grassland and fen, deer and cattle, and a rabbit warren.
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The house is built on the site of a medieval prison.
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The shapes and engraved decorations of these pieces are typical of medieval Islamic glassware.
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The rebeck, to whose loud and harsh strains the medieval rustic had danced, [Footnote: The rebeck probably had been borrowed from the Mohammedans.] by the addition of a fourth string and
A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
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Medieval parties to celebrate saints' days would often descend into chaos or a protest.
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The little village was almost medieval - ox carts pulled the harvest in and the farmers all wore wooden clogs.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was natural that writers interested in medieval history and culture should react sharply to the deni - gration of their period by Burckhardt and scores of lesser men.
IDEA OF RENAISSANCE
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Illuminating Fashion: Dress in the Art of Medieval France and the Netherlands" includes over 50 illuminated medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, as well as printed books, and will tell you what a gipser and kirtle were.
Don't Miss: June 4-10
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Only by crossing the short bridge can you take in its natural grandeur and the maze of streets that make up the medieval town.
Times, Sunday Times
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The tumbledown exterior walls were smothered with moss and ivy, and many of the original features, including fragments from the first-floor medieval loo - known as the garderobe - were strewn around the overgrown garden.
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Our ability to stress over trivial cultural issues while ignoring the extermination of the environment will make medieval peasants believing in miracles seem as reasonable as Einstein.
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But the British Museum is refusing to back down and insists the chessmen are the highlight within the new Paul and Jill Ruddock Gallery of Medieval Europe.
Evening Standard - Home
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The medieval castle is the most romantic ruin in Cornwall.
On the Trail of Merlin - a guide to the Celtic mystery tradition
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The villa is a former flax mill with a fantastic vantage point overlooking the town's medieval castle.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the medieval Hall of St Mary, Green Men occur as bosses, corbels, in tapestry, and in stained glass.
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Her coif was the tall medieval hennin of Plougastel, a flood of lace falling from its summit.
A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago
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They felt a deep sense of indebtedness to the learned scholars of the early medieval period.
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Ranging from antiquities and ethnographia through medieval manuscripts and quattrocento panel paintings to Bacon and Polke, it is of course the European Fine Art Fair at Maastricht.
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The black and white dress code was given a splash of colour by members of the Army, who attended in their Reds, and Colchester Town Watch appeared in medieval regalia.
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Paintings representing religious themes were common in medieval times.
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This technique recalls medieval recipes antedating the invention of the pudding cloth.
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To many people, John XXIII was the Kennedy pope, and Vatican II was his Camelot a glorious, Roman Catholic version of the New Deal and the New Frontier that would move Catholicism from the medieval past into a rosy future of social equality, in which mass would be celebrated in the vernacular, nuns' habits would be modernized, and the popemobile would replace the traditional gestatorial chair as a form of papal transportation.
Philocrites: May 2005 Archives
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In medieval terms, the Platonic approach locates music in the quadrivium, as a branch of mathematics, while the Aristotelian locates it with the practical arts of the trivium, grammar, rhetoric, and logic.
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Effortlessly unravelling the twists and turns of medieval Italian politics, Stonor Saunders is stylish in her prose style, languid in her learning and acerbic in her judgments.
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Venetians cheered from the rooftops as the docks burnt but the medieval city escaped damage.
Times, Sunday Times
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One Friday afternoon, en route to the medieval rectory that served as the family's country home, Javier suddenly veered sharply right upon hearing I'd never had horchata de chufa , a sweet milk made from tiger nuts.
A Fish Tale
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In medieval times, there was a romantic belief that birds chose their mate in February.
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Woad robs the soil of nutrients, forcing medieval woad growers in Europe to move frequently in search of uncultivated land.
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No medieval hagiographer better satisfied the need for historical ‘facts’ and for hagiographical ‘types’ (David, Elijah, Antony the Hermit).
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The parquet in the salon is arranged in an escalier pattern, gleaned rather than ripped off from a medieval painting.
Times, Sunday Times
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I ghost-write military autobiographies, said one; My special area of interest is catalogue descriptions of medieval wall-hangings, said another.
Are you THE Ken Wilson? « Ken Wilson's Blog
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After seven years as a very part-time adjunct, I'm still amused by how irked my students are by all the things I don't know, examples of which have included medieval embroidery, Celtic languages, metallurgy, neopaganism, Scottish history, regional developments in medieval agriculture, and the 40 most recent fantasy novels about Arthur and Guenevere.
Beowulf Hobbyists of the World, Unite!
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You'd say what seems to be on the rise is not art or science, but religion and the medievalism of superstition and the tyranny of who owns whose soul and the soul of what nation.
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The term 'transgendered', like the term 'queer', is a term conceived broadly enough to potentially include medieval people: a certain percentage of persons who describe themselves with this term live either in-between genders or in some other complex relationship with the binary of male and female.
In the Middle
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Many have looked to the rise of modern science for the answer, particularly in its decisive break with medieval scholasticism.
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The authority of the early medieval Church in England was no different to that of any other landowner.
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Most of the early medieval saints were bishops, abbots, and abbesses with an impeccable social pedigree.
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Medieval Britain inherited around 10,000 miles of Roman road, combined with an extensive network of trackways following less clearly defined routes.
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If we confine ourselves to Europe in the late medieval and early modern periods, we find that at least initial studies have been completed on England, France, Amsterdam, and parts of Germany.
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Although extensive (and presumably fantastically expensive), the excavations revealed a story of only local interest, with Medieval and later expansion by Kingston upon Thames via a series of revetments into the river.
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The medieval ports of Lannion and Treguier are short drives away, each with picturesque timbered houses and ancient churches.
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Their great old houses overflow with rough medieval furniture, threadbare tapestries and religious relics worn smooth by the touch of generations.
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The work combines Latin and English liturgical texts and medieval poetry, with a dramatic enaction of the Passion story.
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This is very similar to the detailed, ornate, velvety and yet touchingly naive backdrops of those medieval scenes, that can be glimpsed through narrow windows in front of which wimpled ladies exchange devotional books with chivalrous gentlemen.
Archive 2008-06-01
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To create a medieval feel, the towers will have arrow slits and cars will be able to drive under the archway beneath a raised portcullis.
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The English were looting the Spanish, transforming the cash gained by selling off their medieval patrimony, and the coal hewn from their provinces, into a truly extraordinary epoch in human culture.
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The city has a medieval quarter, great pubs, and an annual opera festival of international importance.
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And it is certainly true that he often exaggerates, or at any rate misdescribes, some of the contrasts he discerns between medieval and Lutheran religious sensibility.
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Because most medieval physicians defended scholasticism, he was not a friend of the medical profession.
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This toponymy, dating from medieval times, reappeared spontaneously in southern and eastern Ukrainian towns and cities, such as Kherson, Mykolaiv, and Simferopol that were built in the eighteenth century.
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As if fulfilling the portentous predictions of some medieval soothsayer, the first year of this new century has witnessed an unprecedented catalogue of warnings of the cumulative effects of climate change.
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Meksi was by profession a construction engineer and former restorer of medieval architecture.
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Within the northern compound is a rectangular structure, probably a post-medieval sheepfold.
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Twice a day a huge, medieval siege catapult launches a fireball in battle.
The Sun
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His interior pieces on display include medieval banquet tables, slender candlesticks and chandeliers, and mirrors.
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First, this medieval syntax is a bit hard on my eyes (please see #4 here).
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Frank Murdock’s Review Forum
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Traces of these burgages and the medieval layout can still be seen.
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In the medieval sagas, like Siegfried, the main character will do something - like stage a coup against the king who has favored him up to then - which simply does not make sense -- unless we realize that Siegfried is not a character but a type.
July 25th, 2008
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As a result universities remain among the last unreformed corners of the public sector, still working to the medieval calendar.
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Writing about the building for The New York Times in 1995, Christopher Gray said, "This medieval brick fortress recalls the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, with a massive entry arch, barred windows and a machicolated cornice.
Quogue-mire!
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I got a heavy tome on medieval art and church architecture from my library.
Times, Sunday Times
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Later in that same article, Coffman notes that the use of fish in a spiritual fast was cause for great culinary creativity in the Medieval kitchen, and a French abbess is credited for the creation of the divine dish which I hesitate to categorize as “fish soup” called bouillabaisse.
Tigers & Strawberries » Fish: Feast or Fast?
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The illustrations in such medieval prayer books represented the work of the season: here a peasant mows a meadow.
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The library is an enormous resource for historians of medieval France.
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Even the name is a little chilling, recalling a medieval spearlike weapon as well as a ferocious fish.
Try Pike On The Fly
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It is as though the historic opponents of medieval times, the aristocrats and the guildsmen, had been brought together in harmony.
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If we weren't touring some medieval fortress, drinking delicious red wine or visiting a duomo, we were on the bus headed to our next destination.
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In so far as the idyll is a signifier to which a real world referent can be attached -- pre-industrial culture, medieval society, etc. -- we might be dubious of a restoration that is essentially an act of validation.
Narrative Grammars
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Many of the riffs are righteously medieval in tone, but they rework those tripping arpeggios for a scorched-earth rock setting, without a lute, zither or lyre within earshot.
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Drawing on data from biological anthropology, historical linguistics, and archaeology, he attempts an etic examination of the processes of formation of ethnic groups in the Japanese islands between 400 BC and the medieval era.
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Escape the tourists, and get lost in this grid of medieval streets which hide an operatic society and a lively arts scene.
Times, Sunday Times
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The faerie folk are mentioned in the medieval chronicles and go back even further; Chaucer describes them as something people ‘no longer’ believe in.
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This frees McFerrin to experiment with musical forms ranging from Medieval polyphony to African folk music.
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The game grants you omnipotence over an assortment of medieval soldiers, serfs and craftsmen, who are your humble pawns as you bid to establish your reign.
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We came to the small medieval town of Orchha as the sun was sinking from a pink and grey sky shot with golden threads.
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ALGIERS: Security forces sealed off the medieval Casbah district of Algiers following two murders and reports that an armed group was hiding out in the area, reports said.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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This theoretical uncertainty was fully supported by the experience of ancient and medieval technology.
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The verticality of the torsos and a repeated motif of small, close-to-the-body hops appeared to pay tribute to the medieval music and dances that inspired the piece.
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This contains a veritable outpouring of medieval art; frescoes cover most of the interior walls and porch.
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Both stories are made richer by their justifiable portrayal of a highly interconnected medieval world.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The operation of these plantations resembled the feudal manors of medieval Europe.
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At the same time, there are less than a dozen extant early medieval Welsh manuscripts, and only three are illuminated.
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Thatched-roof cottages characterize the medieval village of Dunster, among the largest of Exmoor's villages and hamlets and one of the park's most popular attractions.
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If you aren't recreating medieval fire processions or pogoing with 100,000 people, it seems you don't have much choice as to how you toast the New Year in public.
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Visitors had to wend and weave their way around corners and curves to reach the various spaces, which once again invoked the trope of the medieval city.
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Really, this is an argument that might appeal to a medieval schoolman, but, really, having regard to the summing up, to suggest that there is any miscarriage of justice in this case borders on the preposterous.
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White's descriptions of daily life in medieval England are ravishingly vivid: Like a restorer of antiques, he strips away the grime and smoke from the past until it's bright and clear as the present.
Arthur Comes Alive In 'The Once And Future King'
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In the medieval period, the road was realigned slightly to become modern Fenchurch Street.
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To get an idea of the Dutch achievement in domesticity, I cite Rybczynski on the urban medieval home: "The typical bourgeois townhouse of the 14th century combined living and work.
Before the Dutch: The Medieval Home
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It is one of the country's best preserved medieval castles.
Times, Sunday Times
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The portrait miniature seems to be a development of two older traditions: the medieval illumination of manuscripts and the Renaissance portrait medal, which was itself a revival of a classical form.
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If you want a real taste of the medieval fare, visit the hog roast stall.
The Sun
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In medieval times a chafing dish was a portable brazier to hold burning coals or charcoal, designed to be set on a metal stand and to have a dish of food on top.
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See G. Leff, Medieval Thought: St Augustine to Ockham, passim.
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When the original hall was built, it was itself a departure from the medieval style of mansion and was the first manor house in the county made of brick and stone.
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In contrast, Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "The Tune of the Seven Towers" of 15 years later shows static figures garbed in rich fabrics that recall medieval paintings.
Historic Watercolors Flood U.K. Museum
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Harold Laski said Beatrice Webb should have been a medieval abbess, where her organising ability would have gained a spiritual dimension.
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Though, given the occasional medievalism of the Liturgical Movement, this too, is perhaps less unusual than I might think.
St. Robert's, Shorewood, Wisconsin
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If the moral resourcefulness of Scripture was obvious to medieval exegetes, it was even more so to Protestants.
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They banqueted in the hall where in medieval times the Teutonic Knights had feasted.
Emancipation
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Only the medieval tower had remained intact .
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The cruciform church has huge Perpendicular windows, which until the C18 retained their medieval stained glass.
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Hudson falls for wife of man he killed, studies, cures her uncurable blindness in bare-chested operation-starts in death, ends in salvation, and updates a medieval mythology of efficacious grace into the apostatic 50s of luxury condos and kultchah, with uneasy overtones of capitalist will-to-power: a full-grown stereotype of moonlit joy rides, canted California beachlight, Swiss oompahpah, the world's best optometrists in labcoats, a hidden desert valley in Arizona that exists only for a hospital that exists only as the bedspring of recovery-emotional and physical-for our cut-out protagonists.
The L Magazine - New York City's Local Event and Arts & Culture Guide
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Among the items recovered are gold coins, medical equipment, clothing and footwear, and a shawm, a medieval forerunner to the oboe and one of the oldest such musical instruments in the world.
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Medieval agriculture was undertaken by peasants who of course constituted the overwhelming majority of the total population.
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Medieval people had a horror of treachery and cowardice; the two were often felt to go hand in hand.
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Historical interpretation of medieval English documents and records requires a reading knowledge of Latin and French and training in philology, paleography, and diplomatics, as well as in history.
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I found a beautiful little city, its medieval spires sitting astride the River Limmat and its face turned to the crystalline waters of Zurichsee, a lake so clean its water has been certified safe to drink.
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In late medieval Christianity, Michael together with St George became the patron of chivalry, and the patron of the first chivalric order of France, the Order of Saint Michael of 1469.
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In literature, the only field that even offers competition with medievalists for techno-geekiness is composition and rhetoric (especially the compu-comp folks).
Blogging and Medievalists
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What could go better with a medieval unit than gargoyles?
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We learned how Romans built their bridges, how medieval masons built their vaults, how lime and mortar were used in English buildings, and so on.
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During the medieval era of chivalry, the names of English maidens and bachelors were put into boxes and drawn out in pairs.
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The condition called ergotism or St. Anthony’s fire, common in medieval Europe, was caused by a mycotoxin produced by a mold that grew in rye bread.
HOME COMFORTS
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There is no connection between the phrase and the actual blood color of nobility; however, in the ancient and medieval societies of Europe, much of the upper class may have had superficial veins that appeared blue through their untanned skin, in contrast with the working class of the time, mainly agricultural peasants who spent most of their time working outdoors and thus had tanned skin.
A terribly painful conversation.
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Set at the south-east corner of the old city, the site lies just beyond what was once the line of the medieval city wall.
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Randy G. Lander is a Russian descendant and she carries on the medieval Khazars tradition of jewelry trading with an emphasis on alexandrite. She can tell you alexandrite is the rarest gemstone on earth.
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Combine kiwis in a fruit salad with scrumptious strawberries (which were reputed to contain a love potion by medieval gardeners) and see what happens!
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We babble about nation-building where there's no nation to build, just a premedieval mosaic of tribes that hate each other.
PrairiePundit
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He quotes abundantly from Scripture, medieval mystics and gifted contemporary writers.
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The medieval Europeans divided the world between Christian and heathen, but heathens could convert to Christianity.
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Of course, if we were to ask a medieval king to describe feudalism, he would not really know what it was we were asking of him.
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Quail did not figure prominently in medieval menus in England, although they are regular summer visitors, familiar in hayfields and cornfields and sometimes called corncrakes for that reason.
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Subsequently he appeared frequently in religious art of the medieval period.
COLLINS DICTIONARY OF SAINTS
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Calls to mind a two dimensional medieval tapestry with beautiful color and craftmanship but no perspective.
Never Mind About Those Cowboys
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Many were still garbed in the period medieval garments that had been required, but no one seemed to notice him.
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And his general military historical stuff, partly on my own reading and partly on the opinions of people I respect, is occasionally interesting, but too often boiler plate wrapped in dubious generalizations, particularly in areas where he has no personal expertise such as the Aztecs and medieval Japan. levitra Says:
Matthew Yglesias » Obama’s Permanent Revolution
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The populace had grown so hardened to artists that gruff-voiced lesbians in corduroy breeches and young men in Grecian or medieval costume could walk the streets without attracting a glance, and along the Seine banks Notre Dame it was almost impossible to pick ones way between the sketching-stools.
Inside the Whale
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The wooded gardens lie beneath the Verdala Palace, a moated medieval castle.
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When Barbara got Zina home, she made a strange discovery - the dog has webbed feet since she is an otterhound, bred for medieval hunting when otters could be found on the dinner table.
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The right model for the teacher unions is the medieval craftsman guilds, the hallmarks of which were professional ability and demonstrated accomplishment.
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The names usually refer to the tall flowering spike which in medieval times was dipped in tallow and set aflame as a torch in the evening.
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Actually, it seems to me that in medievalism (depictions of the medieval in the modern world), non-adulterous obstacles are more common.
Literary Adultery
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Empiricists like Locke and rationalists like Newton lacked the rich ontology of Thomas Aquinas and the medieval schoolmen.
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Thereafter, formal rituals of exorcism were adopted by the Church throughout the medieval centuries.
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Alongside the Flea's concerns about global colding and fascist medievalism is the gnawing anxiety we are all going to be pasted by an asteroid.
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There are relatively few surviving pieces of medieval date, so the study of armour is largely dependent on the evidence of monumental effigies, manuscript illuminations, and documentary sources such as accounts and inventories.
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But all I experience are the symptoms of withdrawal from the self I have labored a lifetime to create -- what the medieval Cistercians called "the land of unlikeness" hiding the true self that Scripture says is created in God's image.
Retreat Into Silence
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So, in medieval times, cats were killed because they were feared, despatched by, for example, having stones thrown at them.
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The top of the hill was occupied in medieval times, presumably because of its defensive potential.
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However, there has been little to compare to the crusades and religious wars in medieval and early-modern Europe.
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However, during the medieval period there was always an undercurrent of premillennialism among individuals such as Joachim of Fiora and the Spiritual Franciscans.
The Myth/Reality of Antichrist - and the danger to America!
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The medieval Church believed in salvation through faith and works.
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Later medieval chivalry has been criticized for being decadent and other-worldly, yet it never lost touch with the changing military dimensions of war nor was blind to its bloody realities.
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Medieval heraldry often showed an elephant with a castle on its back.
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A hippogriff is a noble beast: In the few medieval legends when this fantastic creature makes an appearance, it is usually the pet of either a knight or a sorcerer.
Dick Cheney, the Unique Creature
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It is just as true that the endless portrayals of the life of Christ in medieval art, as well as acting as one of the main forms of religious instruction, betoken an obsessive desire to grasp the essence of the God-man.
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Medieval scholars
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A clickable electronic version of this handlist is at: http: / / www.york.ac.uk/teaching/history/pjpg / Medievaldiss.htm
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The Islamic expansion of the early medieval period was not waged for glory, or any of the other factors I listed at the top of this op.
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His Iberian study also serves to exemplify advances in medieval research and historiography since the series' predecessor.
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The castle, dominating its surroundings, represents a high point of medieval military architecture.
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In medieval theories of action in the early part of the thirteenth century, "liberum arbitrium" is a technical term.
Philip the Chancellor
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Destruction is, by its nature, difficult to confirm, but all the evidence indicates that iconoclasts in the medieval Islamic world only rarely destroyed images, in the sense of physically obliterating them.
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After a full semester, however, of one class on paleography and another on medieval book culture (the latter with Chris Baswell, who is part of the team that worked on assembling the UCLA site), I can't help but think about the objects themselves.
Archive 2009-02-01
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For the first purpose it is seldom mounted with a sharp "Point of War" and never sharpened for the purpose of recreating a medieval joust .
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The medieval constitution of the town, with its minuscule political franchise, was frozen in place.
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The practice has continued from medieval times to the present day.
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The combination of melodies in polyphony, one of the great artistic achievements of medieval Europe, has produced the need for a more specialized explanation of melody in Western music.
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There is no way that in our modern, civilised society that we can allow this barbaric, medieval practice to continue.
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Earlier over lunch I had been three pages into a biography of the man who invented Freon when the article suddenly made no sense at all - instead of freon, it was now discussing Medieval paint technology.
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He cast himself as an urban philosopher whose overarching theory, which he called Gothic Futurism, posited that graffiti writers were trying to liberate the mystical power of letters from the strictures of modern alphabetical standardization and had inherited this mission from medieval monks.
NYT > Home Page
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15Elshtain argues that medieval men and women inhabited a structured but loose-fitting 'saeculum', in which distinctions between war and peace, reason and emotion, nature and culture, science and faith, domestic and civil, proper and uncouth, even male and female were to some degree blurred.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
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In a few decades people will look at the bigotry against gays and lesbians as medieval.
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A set of doors that may have belonged to the church of St. Sophia in Novgorod formed part of the iconostasis, the high screen that divided the church sanctuary from the nave in late medieval Russia.
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Like her medieval predecessors, she received the stigmata, the mark of Christ's wounds.
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Medieval man may not have had the thrill of flinging Frisbees, but they had a worthy counterpart, the challenging sport of batfowling.
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In medieval times the sapphire was believed to offer protection to its wearer.
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The same seems clearly true of the conception of pedigree that came to loom so large in the social thinking of the gentry of the late medieval and early modern ages.
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The character has a variety of origins, from the medieval court jester to the licensed clown of the Feast of Fools.
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Along with their other accessories, the warriors' elaborate dress suggests that they brought both wealth and pageantry to combat, which Donnan likens to medieval jousts.
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Sometimes they flourished as city-state systems, as in early Sumeria, classical Greece, the Maya civilization, and medieval Europe.
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The old medieval concept of an absolute ruler imbued with divine authority was being challenged by the shifting economic reality and the monarchy was constantly being called on to justify itself.
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Harold Laski said Beatrice Webb should have been a medieval abbess, where her organising ability would have gained a spiritual dimension.
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Samurai and medieval warriors wept to show that they truly felt the code of honour they avowed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Xizang Tonglan (A comprehensive view of Tibet) (Taibei: Huawenshuju, 1969); for the early medieval ages, see Beckwith 1987 and Zhang Yun, Silu Wenhua: Tubo Juan (The Silk Road cultures: Tibet) (Hangzhou: Zhejiang Renmin Chubanshe, 1995); for the route between Chang'an, Tibet, and Nepal, see Lu Yaoguang 1989. back
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
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Where Benchtours and Théâtre Sans Frontières take us into another world, Borderline take us back in time to Italy's medieval minstrels with Dario Fo's Mistero Buffo.
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The medieval pottery and iron tools speak more of hard work and modest prosperity than of exotic trade links.
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Medieval people had a horror of treachery and cowardice; the two were often felt to go hand in hand.
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Laurie Pappajohn, a local harpist, and her group played traditional music of the mystics using medieval Celtic instruments.
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In the highly traditional society which existed in medieval England, a society bound by ties of blood and heredity, wealth and landholding alone were not enough to make a man noble - at least in the eyes of his contemporaries.
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His travels had given him a wide knowledge of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance art.
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Belief in the truth that the creation is God's handiwork generated the scientific progress that began not in the eighteenth century but in medieval scholasticism.
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Medieval and modern writers wrongly take it for granted that the charism existed permanently at Corinth — as it did nowhere else — and that St. Paul, in commending the gift to the Corinthians, therewith gave his guaranty that the characteristics of Corinthian glossolaly were those of the gift itself.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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Cheese-flavoured biscuits have their origins in medieval cheese tarts and pastries; but the totally plain, unsweetened biscuit for eating with cheese did not come into use until the 18th century.
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The New Forest is the most intact surviving example in England of a medieval hunting forest.
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Southampton's network of medieval vaults are hidden below the streets and houses of the old town, stretching from Bargate in the north to Town Quay.
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Here you have someone who is obviously a talented politician (if playing for the wrong team - the GOP, that is) and he can't be allowed to run for higher office because of the prejudices of a bunch of medieval lamebrains.
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The term "psaltery", from the [[Latin]] "'' psalterium ''", reveals its perceived similarity with the instrument of the [[psalms]] in [[medieval]] times.
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Since medieval times, the merchants in most towns in Europe had organized themselves into guilds, just like craftsmen.
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There are also remains of old castles and medieval fortifications and magnificent examples of rural homesteads.
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‘These dogs were bred for bull-baiting in medieval times,’ Butler explained.
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There is also a swimming pool, bicycles for hire and nearby medieval villages and cathedrals to visit.
Times, Sunday Times
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A ghost story set in medieval times with screaming heroines and handsome knights, it was aiming at the market that longed for a return to more rural, gentler times.
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Medieval town planners clearly did not have Wi-Fi in mind.
Times, Sunday Times
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He sought a new and apodictic foundation of human knowledge based on the liberation of man from the ancient and medieval tradition of the West.
