The Razi referred to above (called by our medieval writers Rhasis) was a celebrated physician of Bagdad, where he died about A.
The idea at the bottom of the "Knight and Death" seems to be a combination of the Christian knight of Erasmus's Enchiridion militis Christiani with the type, traditional in medieval imagery, of the pilgrim on his way through the world.
In medieval times the importance of Dudley (Dudelei) depended on the castle, which is mentioned in the Domesday Survey.
The old quarter, on the promontory, is walled, and has a medieval castle, once of great strength.
As in most European nations, the religious drama takes a prominent place in every survey of medieval literature in Holland.
The poets of Holland had already discovered in late medieval times the value of gilds in promoting the arts and industrial handicrafts.
Dukes made many contributions to philology, but his best work was connected with the medieval Hebrew poetry, especially Ibn Gabirol.
His ideas on the subject of drama were at first a mere development of the medieval "Abelespelen.
His romantic stories of medieval life, especially his Charlotte van Bourbon, are curiously like shadows cast forward by the Waverley Novels, but he has little of Sir Walter Scott's historical truth of vision.
A very curious collection of mystical medieval hymns by Sister Hadewych, a nun of Brabant, was first printed in 1875 by Heremans and Ledeganck.
He was one of the first of the medieval rabbis to be a salaried official of the synagogue.
The remainder of Boendale's works are didactic poems, pursuing still further the moral thread first taken up by Maerlant, and founded on medieval scholastic literature.
His conception of religion was medieval in its sensuousness, and he probably repeated the stages of sin, repentance and renewed assurance with some facility.
This is a version of the medieval doctrine of the four humours.
This last great battle of the medieval navies had the character of its predecessors.
It was, indeed, a difficult matter to keep a medieval fleet at sea, and the conditions that produced this state of things lasted far into the modern period.
Had all the paper of which these cargoes consisted been bank-notes, they would not have enabled their owner to create a duplicate of the old library, rich in the fathers, the civilians, and the medieval chroniclers.
The old teacher reminded people of one of those grotesque figures which look as if they had just stepped out of some medieval panel.
Within this hazy, quivering veil, the violinist was then seen, driving his bow furiously across the human chords, with the contortions of a demoniac, as we see them represented on medieval cathedral paintings!
A 'Magic' Sword or Staff is not necessarily a relic; Medieval romance supplies numerous instances of self-acting weapons whose virtue in no wise depends upon their previous owner, as e.
The look of ecstasy that had opened to Lassie the gate of Medieval faith, flooded her face.
It seems very medieval and devoted for him to be out there at all, don't you think?
It held to its privileges as rigidly as any medieval knight held to his.
I'd dearly love to add a medieval phantom to my experiences, and only wish I thought anything would show up.
I will, if you please, myself spend some hours in the Grey Room after dark, and learn what the medieval spirits have to tell me.
Be sure that a medieval alchemist, searching in vain for elixir vitae, or the philosopher's stone, chanced upon this infernal synthesis and fusion.
The style is concise, the anecdotes are well told, the descriptions short and picturesque; the whole constitutes one of the most living pictures of medieval society.
Angilbert, however, was little like the true medieval saint; his poems reveal rather the culture and tastes of a man of the world, enjoying the closest intimacy with the imperial family.
Of its numerous medieval buildings the most important is the cathedral of St. Maurice, dating in the main from the 12th and 13th centuries.
One was that of the small villages, where the system of the medieval villa, or concejo, obtained, but since these units were of small consequence the retention of their earlier liberties had little or no effect on the general situation.
The nobles did not at once forget their medieval practices of duelling, private war, plotting, and violence.
The bibliographical sections of the Cambridge medieval history and the Cambridge modern history (items 10 and 29 below) will be found particularly helpful.
Characteristics of a medievaltype still persisted, such as faulty drawing, color lacking in energy and richness, a sad and sober ambient, and a disregard for everything in a painting except the human figures.
The classical authors and the patristic writings of the medieval period occupied their attention, together with allied works in other languages, such as ancient Hebrew or modern Italian.
To an initiated listener it would have been plain that in a short while words would be found inadequate and the dagger, that medieval forerunner of the slap-stick, brought into play.
Nearly all the leading classical, early Christian and medieval writers figure in his pages, and he was acquainted with the notable chronicles and romances of Europe and had studied the best Italian and Spanish authors.
The auto-da-fe was almost identical with the sermo generalis of the medieval inquisition.
It has medieval buildings of some interest, but is mainly remarkable for its large dynamite factory, employing over 500 workman.
Avignon is still encircled by the ramparts built by the popes in the 14th century, which offer one of the finest examples of medieval fortification in existence.
The social, religious and educational reforms of Maria Theresa also mark her reign as the true epoch of transition from medieval to modern conditions in Austria.
It covers the whole range of Austrian history, medieval and modern.
Those concerning the teaching he got inspired him with little gratitude; the school was still barbaric, then, he said; ancient medieval text-books were used there of whose silliness and cumbrousness we can hardly conceive.
The negative aspect of Erasmus's mind may be defined as a heartfelt aversion to everything unreasonable, insipid, purely formal, with which the undisturbed growth of medieval culture had overburdened and overcrowded the world of thought.
He saw that warrior of Christ differently, in the glowing colours of the Spanish-Christian, medieval ideal of chivalry.
The term barbarism as used by Erasmus comprised much of what we value most in the medieval spirit.
Their imagination was always steeped in the essence of Antiquity, though, at heart, it is more nearly connected with medieval ideals than they themselves were aware.
He attended lectures on the Bible and on the Book of the Sentences, the medieval handbook of theology and still the one most frequently used.
Miles with Erasmus has no longer the meaning of 'knight' which it had in medieval Latin.
It comprised the whole intellectual scheme of medievaltheology and philosophy.
The medievaltown was on the north side at the chief landing-place (Marina Grande), and to it belonged the church of S.
Caravaca is dominated by the medieval castle of Santa Cruz, and contains several convents and a fine parish church, with a miraculous cross celebrated for its healing power, in honour of which a yearly festival is held on the 3rd of May.
The earliest medieval attempts at bell music, as distinct from mere noise, seem to have consisted in striking a row of small bells by hand with a hammer, and illustrations in MSS.
Scattered over all parts of the county are numerous British or early medievaltumuli and camps.
The site was only occupied in the late middle ages by a village which has, however, outgrown the medieval Capua in modern days.
We are conscious of a difference betweenmedieval fashions in belief and modern fashions.
A medieval doctor gained his patient's confidence by telling him that his vitals were being devoured by seven worms.
His medieval little childish soul was all upset by it.
The photographs show him in the elaborate uniform of an officer of the throne-guards, in fancy-dress as a medieval knight, in flannels and in ordinary mufti.
Was there no wish to rule in the boy's medieval little brain, was there no jealousy in his passionate little heart?
But his little modern adventure had, I fear, quite outrun his previous medieval reflections, and almost his first inquiry of the silver-chained porter in the courtyard was in regard to the park.
For the last half hour he had been wandering in a medieval town, in a profound medieval dream.
It was that of a young girl dressed in some forgotten medieval peasant garb of velvet braids, silver-staylaced corsage, lace sleeves, and helmeted metallic comb.
In order to estimate this we have to apply tests similar to those we applied before to Greece and Rome and the pre-medieval church.
The medieval churches of St Valerien and St Jean and the ruined chapel of Notre-Dame du Champde, of which the facade in the Renaissance style now forms the entrance to the cemetery, are other notable buildings.
The hotel de ville, a building of the 17th century, containing a museum and library, an older hotel de ville of the 13th century, and several medieval and Renaissance houses, are of interest.
To understand medieval charity it is necessary to return to St Augustine.
In 1633 Wentworth had been sent to Ireland to establish a medieval monarchy and get money, and his success in organization seemed great enough to justify the attempt to extend the system to England.
We may ask, then, What were the results of charity at the close of the period which ends with St Gregory and the founding of the medieval church?
There weremedieval chroniclers who did not fear to assert that Charles rose from the dead to take part in the Crusades.
In medieval times, there are always a multitude of other titles to property besides production and saving.
For proof that the clergy by preaching self denial contributed largely to the creation of capital in the earlier part of medieval history, see Guórard, Polyptiques d’Irminon Préf.
It is impossible to write a real history of the values of the precious metals in ancient and medieval times: the sources of information are too few.
And so throughout almost the whole of Scandinavia’s medieval period, as for instance in the Graugans.
The helot system of the Lacedemonians preserved much longer a great deal more of medieval barbarism; but even here, we may infer from the frequent uprisings and emancipations of the helots, from their services in war etc.
In the Corpus Juris Canonici, that crown of medieval theology, politics and jurisprudence, the ideal of a community of goods occupies a place almost as prominent as in the works of modern socialists.
Pigrum et iners videtur sudore adquirere quod possis sanguine parare: has been the motto of all medieval times.
Scenes from classical and medievalromance were for a long time favourite subject of portrayal upon cloths and tapestries, as well as of illuminations for manuscripts.
Myths originally diverse are blended, either unconsciously, as that of the Roman Saturn with the Greek Cronus; or consciously, as when the medieval missionaries transferred the deeds of the German gods to Christian saints.
Medieval Christianity preferred the direct agency of the Devil.
Thus, much of the teleology both of the individual and the race taught by the primitive and medieval church undergoes serious alterations.
As Bishop Hall quaintly observes, referring to a curious medieval superstition: “Crosses, after the nature of the cockatrice, die if they be foreseen.
Von Leber, in his sketch of medieval armour, has the same notion: "Vom 13.
If meant for ordinary chain-mail, it must be confessed that the medieval artists never hit upon a mode of expressing this material so little resembling the original.
The Kaiser's crusading appeals are not hypocritical or consciously insincere: they are simply many centuries out of date--a grotesque medley of medieval romanticism and royal megalomania.
Saffron and salt were often used together in medieval cookery; see Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery Books, ed.
Both poems are remarkably free from classical allusions and from references to such medieval authors as are freely quoted by Chaucer.
The reason of the general inferiority of the Assembly lies chiefly in the choice of the subject; it was meant to interest some medieval household, but it gave small scope for retaining the reader's attention, and must be held to be a failure.
Elyot's Castel of Helthe (1539) presents the usual strange medievalnotions on medicine.
In the medieval legend, Calchas was not a priest of Venus, but of Apollo, as Chaucer notes; see Troil.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "medieval" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
