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A Room With A View
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There is much that is immortal in this medieval lady.†
Chpt 4 *
Lucy does not stand for the medieval lady, who was rather an ideal to which she was bidden to lift her eyes when feeling serious.†
Chpt 4
Doubtless you know her monographs in the series of 'Mediaeval Byways'?†
Chpt 6
Part Two Chapter VIII: Medieval The drawing-room curtains at Windy Corner had been pulled to meet, for the carpet was new and deserved protection from the August sun.†
Chpt 8
He was medieval.†
Chpt 8
Well educated, well endowed, and not deficient physically, he remained in the grip of a certain devil whom the modern world knows as self-consciousness, and whom the medieval, with dimmer vision, worshipped as asceticism.†
Chpt 8
Cecil, who had his full share of mediaeval mischievousness, replied that the physique of the lower middle classes was improving at a most appalling rate.†
Chpt 9
For the companion who is merely uncongenial in the mediaeval world becomes exasperating in the classical.†
Chpt 11

Definitions:

(1) (medieval)
relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages

(the period of European history between the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the Renaissance -- roughly 500–1500 AD)

Often thought of as a time of instability, superstition, plagues, feudal lords, and knighthood.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Much more rarely, medieval may be used to refer to something as old-fashioned and unenlightened.