All 10 Uses
medieval
in
The Chosen, by Chaim Potok
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- They mentioned the passage, and Danny nodded, immediately identified the tractate and the page, then coldly and mechanically repeated the passage word for word, giving his interpretation of it, and quoting at the same time the interpretations of a number of medieval commentators like the Me'iri, the Rashba, and the Maharsha.†
Chpt 2.7
- He asked what a certain medieval commentator had remarked about that statement, and Danny answered.†
Chpt 2.7 *
- He asked whether Danny agreed with this interpretation, and Danny said he did not, he agreed with another medieval commentator, who had given another interpretation.†
Chpt 2.7
- 'Dogmatic Freudians,' " Danny was imitating Professor Appleman —or so I assumed; I didn't know Professor Appleman, but Danny's voice had taken on a somewhat professorial quality—" 'Dogmatic Freudians are generally to be regarded as akin to the medieval physicists who preceded the era of Galileo.†
Chpt 3.13
- He laid heavy emphasis on the early and late medieval Talmudic commentators, and we were always expected to come to class knowing the Talmud text and these commentators in advance.†
Chpt 3.14
- By the time I was four lines into the passage, the discussion had become so involved that I had already begun to appeal to one of the medieval commentaries that were not printed on the same page as the text but were rather placed separately at the end of the tractate.†
Chpt 3.14
- Then I would go into the attempt of the late medieval commentary to reconcile the diverse explanations of the commentaries.†
Chpt 3.14
- Then he asked me to show how the late medieval commentary had attempted to reconcile these difficulties, and I went over that, too.†
Chpt 3.14
- Then I heard Rav Gershenson ask me whether I was satisfied with the late medieval commentary's attempt at reconciliation.†
Chpt 3.14
- And the commentaries"—he used the term "Rishonim," which indicates the early medieval Talmudic commentators—"do not help us."†
Chpt 3.14
Definitions:
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(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.