medievalistn.
/ˌmɛd(ɪ)ˈiːvl̩ɪst/, /ˌmɛd(ɪ)ˈiːvəlɪst/, U.S. /ˌmid(i)ˈivələst/; see also medieval adj. and n. 1. An expert in or student of medieval history, culture, etc. Also: a person who practises or is sympathetic to medievalism in art, religion, etc.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > branches or types of history > student or supporter of
archaeologist1656
archaeologian1795
archaeologer1828
medievalist1855
Assyriologist1865
Hibernologista1869
Assyriologue1880
Sumerologist1888
Byzantinist1892
revisionist1925
prehistorian1936
Hittitologist1948
proto-historian1949
Islamicist1951
1855 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 680 A vision which may float before the dreamy imagination of some enthusiastic medievalist.
1856 Sat. Rev. 12 Jan. 191/2 The dogma of the Nonjurors, like many other fancies of dilettante mediaevalists, was of modern and Protestant origin.
1874 J. Ruskin Val D'Arno App., in Wks. IX. App. 222 These outlines will..show my pupils what is the real virtue of mediæval work,—the power which we mediævalists rejoice in it for.
1920 F. S. Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise i. iii. 114 ‘Why do I make lists?’.. ‘Because you're a mediævalist.’
1992 J. M. Roberts Europe 1881–1945 6 The ancient historian or the medievalist has often to wring his conclusions from fragmentary and inadequate sources.
2. A person who lived in the Middle Ages. rare.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of ancient or medieval Europe > [noun]
arethedea1440
medievalist1855
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1855 M. Bridges Pop. Mod. Hist. 445 Such observations..would probably be made by any intelligent mediævalist, could he return to these sublunary scenes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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