medieval

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The mediaevals had as much trouble in reconciling free-will with judicial astrology as we with the divine foreknowledge.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 by Various

Yet that would be only doing in music what the mediaevals did in sculpture.

From A Miscellany of Men by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

But if there was one thing the early mediaevals liked it was representing people doing something—hunting or hawking, or rowing boats, or treading grapes, or making shoes, or cooking something in a pot.

From Tremendous Trifles by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

In their social system the mediaevals were too much PARTI-PER-PALE, as their heralds would say, too rigidly cut up by fences and quarterings of guild or degree.

From A Miscellany of Men by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

Ay, there I do believe, sat Antiquity among those mediaevals.

From The Cloister and the Hearth by Reade, Charles