medievalism
Americannoun
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the spirit, practices, or methods of the Middle Ages.
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devotion to or adoption of medieval ideals or practices.
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a medieval belief, practice, or the like.
noun
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the beliefs, life, or style of the Middle Ages or devotion to those
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a belief, custom, or point of style copied or surviving from the Middle Ages
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The medievalism of castlecore offers people, especially women, a way to critique this tech-bro futurism without directly engaging the politics of the moment, which not everyone wants to do, especially on social media.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2025
One of the things that’s especially interesting about contemporary medievalism is that movies and TV shows will often film real medieval art or in real medieval locations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2022
From Wagner to “Game of Thrones” and back again, pop-cultural medievalism has a habit of leavening sublimity and solemnity with heavy doses of intended or inadvertent silliness.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2021
The most obvious one is the chivalry—which is, when I teach anywhere from 50–100 students a course in medieval history in film and literature, chivalry is what everyone says medievalism is.
From Slate ● May 30, 2018
In spite of the ruined buildings and the damaged grass-grown streets, there was the haunting beauty of a quiet medievalism about the city.
From The Great War As I Saw It by Frederick George Scott
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