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  • noun Plural form of medievalist.

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  • Every academic field has its own issues, but one that I like to harp on for medievalists is that we are held responsible for knowing all there is to know about a millennium of literature (or, in your case, history) stretched over a continent.

    Archive 2005-07-01 Richard Nokes 2005

  • Every academic field has its own issues, but one that I like to harp on for medievalists is that we are held responsible for knowing all there is to know about a millennium of literature (or, in your case, history) stretched over a continent.

    Inferior medievalists Richard Nokes 2005

  • Besides, everywhere I've been, the medievalists are the most fun people in the program followed at a distance by the early modernists.

    Welcome to the Jungle (of Academia) 2008

  • Al-Qaida medievalists are the ones who are Semtex-festooned.

    Archive 2005-08-01 Richard Nokes 2005

  • Al-Qaida medievalists are the ones who are Semtex-festooned.

    Semtex-festooned medievalists Richard Nokes 2005

  • I also love the way he pulls "medievalists" out of the air as an appropriate example of obsolescence.

    Because New Kid is too busy with law school these days to skewer Chronicle articles Prof. de Breeze 2008

  • I also love the way he pulls "medievalists" out of the air as an appropriate example of obsolescence.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Prof. de Breeze 2008

  • At Colossæ it does not seem that the "medievalists" professed to deny Christianity; rather they professed to teach the Judaistic version of it as the authentic type.

    Messages from the Epistle to the Hebrews 1880

  • But since we're "medievalists" around "these parts," this question is worth ruminating further, isn't it?

    In the Middle 2010

  • Most of my academic friends, maybe especially the medievalists among them, are decidedly non-stuffy.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Prof. de Breeze 2009

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