medievalist
noun
me·di·e·val·ist
ˌmē-ˈdē-və-list 
mi-,
ˌme-,
-dē-ˈē-və-
1
: a specialist in medieval history and culture
2
: a connoisseur or devotee of medieval arts and culture
Examples of medievalist in a Sentence
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Gerhard Lutz, a medievalist in a group of half a dozen curators visiting from the Cleveland Museum, was impressed by a small stone statue of the prophet Isaiah attributed to the 14th-century Flemish sculptor Claus Sluter, priced at €500,000 on the booth of the London dealer Sam Fogg.
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Scott Reyburn, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
Archaeologists can punch Nazis … metaphorically In the third movie, The Last Crusade, Indy searches for his kidnapped father, an eccentric medievalist played by Sean Connery.
—Petar Parvanov, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2023
The footage was only two minutes long, yet that was enough to conjure months of debate over sacred relics, goddesses and swords that could easily be confused for the arcane squabbles of medievalists studying Arthurian legend.
—Zachary Small, New York Times, 4 May 2023
Morris, the British medievalist, agrees.
—Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2022
But in October of last year Sebastian Sobecki, a Chaucer scholar at the University of Toronto, and Euan Roger, a medievalist at the British National Archives, published a piece in The Chaucer Review, announcing a breakthrough.
—Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
Some might protect people from thunderstorms or ward off the evil eye, according to archival texts that Marisa Galvez, a medievalist at Stanford University, has combed through.
—Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2020
Tolmie — both a medievalist and professed horse person — brings a scholarly precision to her fantasy that makes magic mundane and the mundane utterly sublime.
—New York Times, 4 Apr. 2022
After his medievalist father goes missing while searching for the Holy Grail, Indiana Jones must retrace his footsteps in order to rescue him and stop the Nazis from getting their hands on it first.
—Kara Thompson, Town & Country, 25 Apr. 2022
Scott Reyburn, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
Archaeologists can punch Nazis … metaphorically In the third movie, The Last Crusade, Indy searches for his kidnapped father, an eccentric medievalist played by Sean Connery.
—Petar Parvanov, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2023
The footage was only two minutes long, yet that was enough to conjure months of debate over sacred relics, goddesses and swords that could easily be confused for the arcane squabbles of medievalists studying Arthurian legend.
—Zachary Small, New York Times, 4 May 2023
Morris, the British medievalist, agrees.
—Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2022
But in October of last year Sebastian Sobecki, a Chaucer scholar at the University of Toronto, and Euan Roger, a medievalist at the British National Archives, published a piece in The Chaucer Review, announcing a breakthrough.
—Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
Some might protect people from thunderstorms or ward off the evil eye, according to archival texts that Marisa Galvez, a medievalist at Stanford University, has combed through.
—Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2020
Tolmie — both a medievalist and professed horse person — brings a scholarly precision to her fantasy that makes magic mundane and the mundane utterly sublime.
—New York Times, 4 Apr. 2022
After his medievalist father goes missing while searching for the Holy Grail, Indiana Jones must retrace his footsteps in order to rescue him and stop the Nazis from getting their hands on it first.
—Kara Thompson, Town & Country, 25 Apr. 2022
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“Medievalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/medievalist. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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