Mediaeval

Spaniard -- and in his peninsula we may apply the term mediaeval to later dates than would be proper in France or Italy -- the desire of extending the dominion of the Church was a very real and powerful incentive to action. ❋ Cyrus Townsend Brady (1890)

Yet Karzai believes he must bring in mediaeval legislation that legalizes rape -- in order to win the next election! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Readers will be aware of that hoary anti-Semitic trope, current in mediaeval times and more recently, that Jews murdered Christian children and made matzohs with their blood. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The point is that it limits the degree of resemblance to Byzantium, where the Church had wealth and influence even greater than in mediaeval Italy or Christian Spain. ❋ Superversive (2010)

The Name of the Rose is full of lists, categories, long discourses that catalogue the world in mediaeval terms. ❋ Unknown (2008)

They may be rooted in mediaeval laws but, as they exist now, they are very new, indeed. ❋ Helen (2006)

Paris because that's completely inaccurate, 'said Ms Newman, who also writes mystery novels set in mediaeval France. ❋ Unknown (2006)

He inserts an arming key, then presses a button labelled in mediaeval Latin. ❋ Amuchmoreexotic (2005)

One can look back to the nomenclature of the game of rounders and find many of the current words: bat, hit, strike, plate, foul, field, team, mound -- all were part of the game of rounders as it was played virtually in mediaeval times in England. ❋ Unknown (1980)

We usually think that the people in mediaeval times were much given to superstition and religious bigotry, that an ecclesiastical caste overan the country and held it under a yoke of lead. ❋ Unknown (1925)

Scriptural tradition, as distinct from the oral, was preserved in mediaeval times by monks and tabellions who wrote Latin, an impoverished Latin; while French, Spanish and other dialects were their actual everyday language, good enough to understand and enjoy on the street and at home. ❋ Unknown (1925)

Its greaty university library of 250,000 volumes, rich in mediaeval history and literature, with some 400 invaluable manuscripts, is no more. ❋ Unknown (1915)

The third great name in Italian mediaeval literature is that of ❋ Porter Lander MacClintock (1906)

While it is true that the pre-eminence of Balliol is a growth of the nineteenth century, yet the college can count among its worthies one of the greatest names in English mediaeval history, that of John ❋ Unknown (1892)

Crane’s recently published Italian Popular Tales; and a Latin mediaeval version (written probably in the I ❋ Unknown (2006)

The Emperor, as was Bismarck, is Prussian, that is to say mediaeval, to the core, notwithstanding that he had an English mother and lived in early childhood under English influences. ❋ Stanley Shaw (N/A)

How complete becomes the idea of mediaeval life, contemplated from the ramparts of a castle, in the "dim, religious light" of an old monastic chapel, or amid the obsolete trappings and weapons of an armory! ❋ Various (N/A)

This is due to what we have called his mediaeval nature. ❋ Shaw, Stanley (1913)