medievalismとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From medieval +‎ -ism.

名詞

medievalism (countable and uncountable, plural medievalisms)

1. The state of being medieval.
   • 1951 February, Michael Robbins, “Sir Walter Scott and Two Early Railway Schemes”, in Railway Magazine, page 90:

     It is striking, and quite in character with the man, that he [Sir Walter Scott], who had popularised a romantic notion of the Middle Ages, should be a convinced supporter of the railway, which was effectively to destroy the few traces of medievalism that had survived into the society of his time.

2. (uncountable) The study of the Middle Ages.
3. A custom or belief from the Middle Ages.

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関連する語

• medievalist