"Medievalism" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... all its medievalism, possessed a few incongruous telephones, and one of these now started ringing violently ...
— Ghetto Comedies • Israel Zangwill
... phrases in order to hide the barrenness of the original. Manifestly he feared the roughness, the remoteness of the poem in its natural state. He feared to offend a nation of readers reveling in the medievalism of Scott and Byron. Aliteral Latin translation was inserted to appease ...
— The Translations of Beowulf - A Critical Biography • Chauncey Brewster Tinker |
