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Of or pertaining to the Middle Ages mediaeligval...
Middle aged
Being about the middle of the ordinary age of man early in the century it was considered between 30 and 50 years old but by the end of the 19th centruy it was considered as 40 to 60...
Mediaeligvalism
The method or spirit of the Middle Ages devotion to the institutions and practices of the Middle Ages a survival from the Middle Ages...
Mediaeligvalist
One who has a taste for or is versed in the history of the Middle Ages one in sympathy with the spirit or forms of the Middle Ages...
Magna Carta
Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents and as the foundation of constitution liberties. The other three great charters of English Liberty are the Petition of Right (3 Car. (1628)), the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2 (1679)), and the Bill of Rights (1 Will. SM. (1689)). Also spelled Magna charta, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 963.This Great Charter is based substantially upon the Saxon Common Law, which flourished in this kingdom until the Normaninvasion consolidated the system of feudality, still the great characteristic of the principles of real property. The barons assembled at St.Edmund's Bury, in Suffolk, in the later part of the year 1214, and there solemnly swore upon the high alter to withdraw their allegiance from the Crown, and openly rebel, unless King John confirmed by a formal charter the ancient li...
Elderly
Somewhat old advanced beyond middle age bordering on old age as elderly people...
Feudal system
Feudal system, the system of land tenure which William the Conqueror introduced into this country, thereby displacing the Saxon laws of property, and which was the chief civil institution of the Middle Ages. The system as introduced here, however, differed in some very important respects from that which prevailed abroad. See FEOD and TENURE, and Craig de Feudis, passim. The main incidents of the feudal system were not expressly abolished in England until 12 Car. 2, c. 24. See Hall, Mid. Ages....
Baudekin
The richest kind of stuff used in garments in the Middle Ages the web being gold and the woof silk with embroidery made originally at Baghdad...
Bestiary
A treatise on beasts esp one of the moralizing or allegorical beast tales written in the Middle Ages...
Birrus
A coarse kind of thick woolen cloth worn by the poor in the Middle Ages also a woolen cap or hood worn over the shoulders or over the head...
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