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The Sword of Summer
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- They looked like maps a school kid in medieval times had made for social studies: faint sketches of a coastline, various points labeled in an alphabet I didn't know.†
p. 14.5 *
- She wore a conical steel helmet over a green head wrap, sort of like a medieval knight.†
p. 43.9
- Some einherjar wore full plate mail like medieval knights.†
p. 122.1
- T.J. jabbed his bayonet through the faceplate of a medieval knight.†
p. 124.9
- Back in medieval times, some of the Vikings settled in Russia.†
p. 372.7
- I had a weird vision of our ancestors, medieval Chase and medieval al-Abbas, sitting around a campfire in Russia twelve hundred years ago, comparing notes on how the Norse gods had messed up their lives, maybe with Thor snoring on a bed of furs nearby.†
p. 373.6
- I had a weird vision of our ancestors, medieval Chase and medieval al-Abbas, sitting around a campfire in Russia twelve hundred years ago, comparing notes on how the Norse gods had messed up their lives, maybe with Thor snoring on a bed of furs nearby.†
p. 373.6
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.