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  • adjective After the Middle Ages.

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post- +‎ medieval

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  • The first major show of its kind in the U.S., jointly organized by the Walters, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the British Museum, it assembles a fascinating array of objects tracing the evolution and permutations of reliquaries from late antiquity to the Renaissance, via Byzantium, plus a section on postmedieval versions of the impulse to preserve and venerate.

    Where Revered Relics Repose Karen Wilkin 2011

  • [2] The definition is adapted from that provided by Workman in a 1993 essay “Medievalism and Romanticism,” were he declares, “In short, medievalism implies any aspect of the postmedieval response to the Middle Ages” (“Medievalism and Romanticism,” Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic-Literary Studies (Tokyo) 39-40 (1993): 15 [1-44]).

    Mission statement and history The Society for the Study of Popular Culture 2009

  • The first surviving measuring tapes are dated postmedieval, and there is no evidence at all for the use of scaled measuring tapes of whatever material and manufacture during the middle ages.

    Archive 2009-04-01 a stitch in time 2009

  • The first surviving measuring tapes are dated postmedieval, and there is no evidence at all for the use of scaled measuring tapes of whatever material and manufacture during the middle ages.

    Finally finished! a stitch in time 2009

  • [2] The definition is adapted from that provided by Workman in a 1993 essay “Medievalism and Romanticism,” were he declares, “In short, medievalism implies any aspect of the postmedieval response to the Middle Ages” (“Medievalism and Romanticism,” Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic-Literary Studies (Tokyo) 39-40 (1993): 15 [1-44]).

    Archive 2009-04-01 The Society for the Study of Popular Culture 2009

  • The Shire is something of a different place than the rest of Middle-Earth anyway, and among timeless Once Upon a Times it feels like a later one, broadly Austenesque, premodern but postmedieval.

    The House on the Strand, by Daphne du Maurier. Book review Carla 2008

  • Columbus wanted gold but found coffee and sugar instead, luxurious treasures for postmedieval Europe.

    Angels of a Lower Flight Susie Scott Krabacher 2007

  • Columbus wanted gold but found coffee and sugar instead, luxurious treasures for postmedieval Europe.

    Angels of a Lower Flight Susie Scott Krabacher 2007

  • Columbus wanted gold but found coffee and sugar instead, luxurious treasures for postmedieval Europe.

    Angels of a Lower Flight Susie Scott Krabacher 2007

  • It's as if the Renaissance never came to postmedieval Spain.

    The Burden of Spain 2007

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