(n.) One who has a taste for, or is versed in, the history of the Middle Ages; one in sympathy with the spirit or forms of the Middle Ages.
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Medievalist
Definition:
() Same as Medi/val, Medi/valism, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Besides, his utopian socialism transpires not in any defined historical moment but in the sort of back-to-the-future society envisaged by William Morris in his neo-medievalist fantasy novel, News from Nowhere , which was published a year before Wilde’s intervention.
(2) Naturally, to the trained medievalist the poem is perfectly readable in its original form; no translation necessary.
(3) At that time he was a medievalist, having studied the Third Crusade as his special subject.
(4) The titular Jim Dixon is an academic of a pretty poor sort, a medievalist who only picked the period because it looked like a soft option.