medievalism

• With Isherwood, who fictionalized him in Lions and Shadows under the name of Allen Chalmers, Upward co-invented the weird dystopia of Mortmere, and co-authored the fantastic gothic tales - surreal medievalism was Upward's term for the genre-that became grouped under that name.
• Many of the Greens actually want to go backwards to some sort of medievalism, others to —  A Place to Stand
• A reversion to every vicious practice of medievalism, he himself being sucked into the vortex and degraded into a common adventurer. —  The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)
• It recognizes that duty in the last analysis is imposed upon the individual neither by society nor even by God, but by himself; that there is no authority in moral matters more ultimate than a man's own rational conviction of what is best We meet here with the application to morality of the motive which underlies the whole modern reaction against medievalism, the motive which John Locke so aptly summarized when he said, "We should not judge of things by men's opinions, but of opinions by things." —  The Moral Economy
• Drawn for the most part from the study of monastic literature, exaggerated by that reaction against medievalism which the Renaissance initiated, they must be regarded as inadequate to represent the whole truth. —  Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse

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