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Definition of Medievals
1. medieval [n] - See also: medieval
Lexicographical Neighbors of Medievals
Literary usage of Medievals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Historical Review by American Historical Association (1902)
"Bach is the last of the medievals and the first of the moderns ; Gluck begins
and Beethoven closes the so-called classic music ; Weber, Spohr and Schumann ..."
2. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1897)
"Beatus could not be used of a living person, the medievals, like the ancients,
calling no man happy till he was dead. ..."
3. The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages by Hastings Rashdall (1895)
"XIV. are shocked at some of the secular things that medievals did ~**~" in churches
which were supposed to be in the most material sense the dwelling-place ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1884)
"But unlike the ancients, the medievals placed in the furthest part of this region
the earthly Paradise, either as an oasis in an expanse of rocks and sands, ..."
5. A History of Political Theories from Rousseau to Spencer by William Archibald Dunning (1920)
"... on the thinking world through the intensity of what the medievals would have
called its nominalism. This was a defect of its most significant quality. ..."
6. Poet Lore (1921)
"To the medievals who developed didactic allegory, the cosmos seemed a simple
thing, a unit whose mystic keys they held in their hands and whose inmost ..."