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

Recent Examples on the Web

Lewis himself was a medievalist at Oxford, and both of their popular literary series are steeped in their knowledge of medieval languages, literature, mythology and theology. — The Conversation, 6 Nov. 2026

The Gottschalk was the sort of text—Latin, Christian, European—on which medievalists built respectable careers. — Ariel Sabar, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2024

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

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

Word History

First Known Use

1855, in the meaning defined at sense 1