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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It’s a kind of medievalism, in other words, that seems to have passed through a sieve of Jane Austen or Emily Brontë; now you can see it in the works of medieval-themed romantasy novels.
From Slate • Feb. 21, 2025
Scratch the surface of American politics or culture, and medievalism seems to always be lurking just beneath.
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
From the start, mélodrame allied itself to most of the paraphernalia, of medievalism and of the terrific school, but it soon showed the capacity for absorbing varied material.
From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.
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