The image of mediaeval life which he succeeded in creating was, of course, a poor, faint simulacrum, compared with Scott's.
It hardly needs to be said that the reproduction, or imitation, of mediaeval life by the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century romanticists, contains a large admixture of modern thought and feeling.
The progress in the sciences and mechanic arts, the discovery and colonizing of America, the invention of printing and gunpowder, and the Protestant reformation had indeed drawn deep lines between modern and mediaeval life.
The study of such a book might form the turning of a mediaeval life; at least could not fail to temper the convulsions of a soul storm-driven amid unreconcilable spiritual conflicts.
We might return, and then once more travel hitherward over the mediaeval path, the many paths and byways of mediaeval life.
We might perhaps make one final attempt to draw the currents of mediaeval life together, or observe the angles of their divergence, and note once more the disparity of taste and interest making so motley the mediaeval picture.
Their romances reflected the loftiest thoughts and the most eloquent emotion pertaining to the earthly side of mediaeval life.
From the testimony of more definite accounts one perceives the rudeness and cruelty of mediaeval life, in which the Church likewise was involved.
There were sides of mediaeval life which he did not know, or understand, or sympathize with, and some of these have been painted in by later artists.
But in Novalis' romance there is no firm delineation of mediaeval life--everything is dissolved in a mist of transcendentalism and allegory.
In this story, which affords a curious picture of mediaeval life, we learn the origin of the proverb relating to the possession and wearing of the breeches.
In Germany, where there was still more roughness in mediaeval life, what was told in England and France as a good story of domestic doings, was actually carried into practice under the authority of the laws.
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