Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A specialist in the study of the Middle Ages.
  • noun A connoisseur of medieval culture.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who is versed in the history of the middle ages.
  • noun One who sympathizes with the spirit and principles of the middle ages: often with the sense of one who is antiquated or behind the times.
  • noun One who lived in the middle ages.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who studies culture and history in the Middle Ages.

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Examples

  • Scholarship, to this young medievalist, is about forging connections – not simply in works of the past but to them, as well among the massive body of texts that remain.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007

  • Scholarship, to this young medievalist, is about forging connections – not simply in works of the past but to them, as well among the massive body of texts that remain.

    Reading Off the List: Only Connect Mary Kate Hurley 2007

  • He had been called a medievalist, a thought he was one of those for whom the world came to an end with the invention of the printing press.

    Arthur J. Penty 2008

  • The only way one is a 'medievalist' is because 'early modernist' exists as a category, after all.

    Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2009

  • She reached behind her neck and let down her hair; brushed her hand over her gown and it turned to some kind of medievalist costume, such as the artists wore.

    Fiddler Fair Lackey, Mercedes 1998

  • Expert opinion is divided over whether the 'medievalist' regime of Afghanistan should be bombed back to the Stone Age or forward into the twenty-first century.

    YOUR NEW REALITY 2008

  • Expert opinion is divided over whether the 'medievalist' regime of Afghanistan should be bombed back to the Stone Age or forward into the twenty-first century.

    YOUR NEW REALITY 2008

  • Expert opinion is divided over whether the 'medievalist' regime of Afghanistan should be bombed back to the Stone Age or forward into the twenty-first century.

    YOUR NEW REALITY 2008

  • Expert opinion is divided over whether the 'medievalist' regime of Afghanistan should be bombed back to the Stone Age or forward into the twenty-first century.

    YOUR NEW REALITY 2008

  • So in at least one way, I feel as if I haven't been a full-fledged medievalist for the past decade.

    Kalamazoo 2009 Prof. de Breeze 2009

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