medievalist
Studies Middle Ages
A medievalist is a scholar who specializes in the study of the Middle Ages, the period of European history roughly spanning from the 5th to the 15th century.
Medievalists may focus on literature, art, history, philosophy, religion, or other aspects of medieval culture and society.
The term can also describe someone with a strong amateur interest in the period, such as participants in historical reenactment groups.
She consulted a medievalist about the manuscript's authenticity.
Treated hide for manuscripts
- illuminationProvision of light
- scriptoriumMonastery manuscript workshop
- codexAncient bound manuscript
- vellumPrepared calfskin for writing
palimpsest · scribe · calligraphy · folio · miniature · bestiary · psalter · gloss
Study of ancient handwriting
- philologyStudy of historical texts
- historiographyStudy of history-writing
- academiaHigher education community
- dissertationExtended academic treatise
monograph · symposium · colloquium · archival · thesis · publication · researcher · professor
Honored mounted soldier
- courtlyRefined and dignified
- joustingMounted knightly combat sport
- tournamentMulti-round competitive event
- heraldryStudy of armorial bearings
armor · quest · squire · lance · valor · nobility · gallantry · pageantry
Aggressive advocacy campaigns
- vikingMedieval Nordic raider
- byzantineDauntingly intricate and devious
- troubadoursMedieval lyric poet-musicians
- monasteryReligious seclusion dwelling
guilds · tapestry · knighthood · chronicle · peasants
Bishop's principal church
- flying buttressExternal arch transferring thrust
- pointed archArch with angled apex
- rose windowCircular tracery-filled window
- stained glassColored window art
gargoyle · vaulted ceiling · spire · turret · nave · apse · cloister · tracery
parchment
Treated hide for manuscripts
- illuminationProvision of light
- scriptoriumMonastery manuscript workshop
- codexAncient bound manuscript
vellum · palimpsest · scribe · calligraphy · folio · miniature · bestiary · psalter · gloss · colophon
paleography
Study of ancient handwriting
- philologyStudy of historical texts
- historiographyStudy of history-writing
- academiaHigher education community
dissertation · monograph · symposium · colloquium · archival · thesis · publication · researcher · professor · humanities
knight
Honored mounted soldier
- courtlyRefined and dignified
- joustingMounted knightly combat sport
- tournamentMulti-round competitive event
heraldry · armor · quest · squire · lance · valor · nobility · gallantry · pageantry · damsel
crusades
Aggressive advocacy campaigns
- vikingMedieval Nordic raider
- byzantineDauntingly intricate and devious
- troubadoursMedieval lyric poet-musicians
monastery · guilds · tapestry · knighthood · chronicle · peasants
cathedral
Bishop's principal church
- flying buttressExternal arch transferring thrust
- pointed archArch with angled apex
- rose windowCircular tracery-filled window
stained glass · gargoyle · vaulted ceiling · spire · turret · nave · apse · cloister · tracery · pinnacle
vassal
Land-holding sworn subordinate
- fiefGranted feudal estate
- serfdomFeudal bound labor
- manorialismMedieval estate labor system
liege · overlord · homage · fealty · peasantry · villein · demesne · seigneurial · castellan · tithe
- scholarsscholar, professors, professor, researcher, researchers
- historianshistorian, historians, chronicler, chroniclers, annalist
- humanities careershistorian, philosopher, linguist, archaeologist, anthropologist
- literary scholarsscholar, critic, literary critics, professor, philologists
- manuscript scholarspaleographer, philologist, scribe, transcriber, collator
- academicsprofessor, course, university professors, math, professors
medievalistmodernist
Advocate of experimental forms
futurist · futurologist · classicist · ancient historian · Americanist
medievalistmodernist
Advocate of experimental forms
futurist · progressivist · avant-gardist · postmodernist · technologist