Both Uses of
Middle Ages
in
The Fountainhead
- He explained that the decadence of architecture had come when private property replaced the communal spirit of the Middle Ages, and that the selfishness of individual owners—who built for no purpose save to satisfy their own bad taste, "all claim to an individual taste is bad taste"—had ruined the planned effect of cities.†
Chpt 1.6 *
- On foggy evenings, under a gas lantern on a street corner, nobody noticed the slender figure leaning against a lamppost, the aristocrat of the Middle Ages, the timeless patrician whose every instinct cried that he should command, whose swift brain told him why he had the right to do so, the feudal baron created to rule—but born to sweep floors and take orders.†
Chpt 3.1
Definition:
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(Middle Ages) the period of European history beginning with the fall of the Roman Empire and ending with the Modern Era (roughly 500-1500 AD)