medieval scholar
Cloistered learned person
A medieval scholar is someone who studies the Middle Ages—roughly the 5th through 15th centuries in European history.
The field encompasses literature, philosophy, theology, art, and social structures of the period.
She's a medieval scholar specializing in Chaucer.
The term can also describe a learned person who lived during that era: Medieval scholars preserved classical texts through monasteries.
- Hildegard of BingenMedieval polymath and abbess
- monastic lifeReligious community living
- monasteriesResidences for religious brothers
- Thomas AquinasScholastic philosopher-theologian
- theologyStudy of the divine
church fathers · seven deadly sins · manuscripts · Avicenna · Duns Scotus · philosophy · glosses · liberal arts · commentaries · universities · translations · astronomy · theological debates · codices · alchemy · literary traditions · medicine · magister
- English professors
- hobbyistshobbyist, hobbyists, enthusiasts, crafters, collectors
- manuscript scholarspaleographer, philologist, medievalist, scribe, transcriber
- religious scholarstheologian, exegete, hagiographer, liturgist, ecumenist
medieval scholarskeptic
One who doubts claims
empiricist · freethinker · rationalist · secular humanist · free thinker
medieval scholarmedieval peasant
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