English > Middle Ages: 1 sense > noun 1, timeMeaning | The period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance. |
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Synonym | Dark Ages |
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Category of | Cockaigne | (Middle Ages) an imaginary land of luxury and idleness |
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Iseult, Isolde | (Middle Ages) the bride of the king of Cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with the king's nephew (Tristan) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other |
Oberson | (Middle Ages) the king of the fairies and husband of Titania in medieval folklore |
Titania | (Middle Ages) the queen of the fairies in medieval folklore |
Tristan, Tristram | (Middle Ages) the nephew of the king of Cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with his uncle's bride (Iseult) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other |
bloodletting | formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine) |
cannon | (Middle Ages) a cylindrical piece of armor plate to protect the arm |
chain mail, ring mail, mail, chain armor, chain armour, ring armor, ring armour | (Middle Ages) flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings |
courtly love | (Middle Ages) a highly conventionalized code of conduct for lovers |
esquire | (Middle Ages) an attendant and shield bearer to a knight |
habergeon | (Middle Ages) a light sleeveless coat of chain mail worn under the hauberk |
humor, humour | (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state |
knight errantry | (Middle Ages) the code of conduct observed by a knight errant who is wandering in search of deeds of chivalry |
miniature, illumination | painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts) |
palatine, palsgrave | (Middle Ages) the lord of a palatinate who exercised sovereign powers over his lands |
pavis, pavise | (Middle Ages) a large heavy oblong shield protecting the whole body |
quadrivium | (Middle Ages) a higher division of the curriculum in a medieval university / university involving arithmetic and music and geometry and astronomy |
serf, helot, villein | (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord |
trivium | (Middle Ages) an introductory curriculum at a medieval university / university involving grammar and logic and rhetoric |
Instance of | historic period, age | An era of history having some distinctive feature |
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Part of | history | The aggregate of past events |
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Spanish | edad media, Edad Media, medievo, medioevo |
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Catalan | edat mitjana, Edat Mitjana |
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Adjectives | medieval, mediaeval | relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages |
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