2. Noun. The study of the Middle Ages ¹
3. Noun. A custom or belief from the Middle Ages. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Medievalism
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Medievalism
Literary usage of Medievalism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the History of Christianity, A.D. 590-1314 by Frederick John Foakes-Jackson (1921)
"CHAPTER XIV DANTE AND THE DECAY OF medievalism Dante the representative of the
best of medievalism — Life of Dante—The Fita Nuova — Henry VII of Luxemburg ..."
2. The Arthur of the English Poets by Howard Maynadier (1907)
"XX THE HIGH TIDE OF medievalism GROWING familiarity with the Arthurian stories
and ever-growing antiquarian interest brought into existence the one ..."
3. Irish Literature by Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche (1904)
"MODERN medievalism. CHAPTER I. " Blow, blow, thou wintry wind." —Shakespeare. "
Blow, breeze, blow." —Moore. It was on a nocturnal night in autumnal October ..."
4. Stein and the Era of Reform in Prussia, 1807-1815 by Guy Stanton Ford (1922)
"Vexatious survivals of medievalism in the form of internal tolls and tariffs
collected by private persons and corporations were swept away in the county of ..."