medievalism

noun 3

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noun

1

The state of being medieval.

It is striking, and quite in character with the man, that he [Sir Walter Scott], who had popularised a romantic notion of the Middle Ages, should be a convinced supporter of the railway, which was effectively to destroy the few traces of medievalism that had survived into the society of his time.

2

The study of the Middle Ages.

3

A custom or belief from the Middle Ages.

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