medieval culture
Feudal era ways
Medieval culture refers to the way of life, beliefs, arts, and social structures of the European Middle Ages, roughly from the 5th to 15th centuries.
The term evokes feudal hierarchies, Catholic Church dominance, chivalric codes, Gothic cathedrals, and manuscript illumination.
In casual use, medieval often implies primitiveness or brutality: Their prison conditions are positively medieval.
- monasticismCloistered religious living
- blacksmithingForging iron by hand
- feudalismLand-for-service social structure
- LatinAncient Roman language
- scholasticismRigorous dialectical learning method
book of hours · troubadours · court jester · serfdom · Romanesque · crusades · gargoyles · pilgrimage · fairs · illuminated manuscripts · guilds · castles · weaving · allegory · morality play · saints · holy relics · epic poetry
- cultural historyart history, music history, social history, collective memory, literary history
- culturessubculture, multicultural, counterculture, underground, bohemian
- RabelaisianGargantua, carnivalesque, ribaldry, bawdiness, scatology
medieval culturecontemporary culture
Current societal trends and values
ancient culture · classical antiquity · modernity · prehistory · prehistoric culture
medieval culturedemocratic society
Polity ruled by citizens
egalitarian society · industrial capitalism · meritocracy · bourgeois society
medieval, culture, medium, medial, median, mediate, mediator, mediation, intermediate