Actually, it seems to me that in medievalism (depictions of the medieval in the modern world), non-adulterous obstacles are more common. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Adultery] Reference
Wolf — bad pseudo-medievalism is one of my pet peeves, but that’s an entire other blog post. From Wordnik.com. [First Girl Ever at SF Novelists] Reference
The dissenting crowd calls that "medievalism," but it is precisely what people need and want in this soul-deadening postmodern age. From Wordnik.com. [Sen. Ted Kennedy's right to a Catholic funeral] Reference
Here's how she summed up the film: "fascist medievalism.". From Wordnik.com. [Last Night's Movie] Reference
Our precipitous descent into neo-medievalism continues apace!. From Wordnik.com. ["Professor Who Flew to Deliver Guest Lecture Bills Stanford for Carbon Offset of Travel."] Reference
John Whipple and others, this seemed like medievalism, and they. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii]
You probably know of varieties of medievalism I've never guessed. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
Anna had a taste for sentiment, sublime landscape and medievalism. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Seward (1742-1809)] Reference
After all, that world had been well settled before it fell to medievalism. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
Here's one for fantasy lovers who're tired of quests and faux medievalism. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
After I changed majors to Computer Science, my hobby remained medievalism. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
The clash between reason and medievalism has Muslims on the side of reason. From Wordnik.com. [Saturday, September 30, 2006] Reference
The other question concerns the fundamental problem of European medievalism. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Islam] Reference
Given this CFP for papers on medievalism in video games, I might re-think that. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-08-01] Reference
The castle itself was another dream, the dream of the apotheosis of medievalism. From Wordnik.com. [Where Eagles Dare]
This whole conflict is about the difference between modern thinking and medievalism. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
In a smaller, interconnected world, they cannot be unaware of their own medievalism. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
Our values of equity, liberty, freedom and justice are superior to that medievalism. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference
‘They hadn’t quite mastered anatomy when medievalism ended, at least in the north. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
Neo-medievalism, then, is a virtuous and rational tradition of reflection and enquiry. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
If medievalism doesn't work out, maybe I can get a career in fighting crime as The Cowinator. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
For now I've been toying with a five page paper for my Old English class on popular medievalism. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
In Russia, Rumania, Spain, and Portugal the struggle is carried on in the spirit of medievalism. From Wordnik.com. [The Social Disability of the Jew] Reference
Here we see that modernism of the sixteenth century which is so often still mixed with medievalism. From Wordnik.com. [HISTORIOGRAPHY] Reference
Question 2: An alternative to medievalism implying magic is the "Connecticut Yankee" kind of story. From Wordnik.com. [Magic] Reference
With Petrarch, the first great figure to emerge from the obscure vistas of medievalism, the case was different. From Wordnik.com. [Horace and His Influence] Reference
The emergence of modern progressive hopes out of this static medievalism is one of the epic occurrences of history. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Progress] Reference
(Blond follows his intellectual godfather Rowan Williams here, as well as the merry medievalism of Belloc and Chesterton.). From Wordnik.com. [Blond's anti-liberalism] Reference
Old-fashioned to the point of medievalism, he predicted the end of print but was not at all pleased about the possibility. From Wordnik.com. [Biography] Reference
That the Greens are pushing this further attempt to reinvent medievalism proves that they are in no way "environmentalists". From Wordnik.com. [What a Fortnightly Load of Rubbish] Reference
The order was revived during the 1880s fad for medievalism, but as the corps of trained voluntary first aiders we know today. From Wordnik.com. [Knights of St John priory in London] Reference
I hope that Catholic Ministers and MPs use this opportunity to vote for modernity and science over medievalism and superstition. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-23] Reference
The conventual system was to him a survival of medievalism, a relic of the dark ages; the last refuge of the shirkers of the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the East] Reference
This room had something of an air of disuse, but was furnished to more recent taste'the medievalism of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. From Wordnik.com. [The Serpent's Shadow]
This contrasts to the background medievalism depicted in many fantasy novels and is over-romanticized in works derived from Tolkein. From Wordnik.com. [The Clan Corporate, by Charles Stross] Reference
I had been to the Graduate Medieval Seminar a very interesting look at Tolkien's medievalism and got a little ubriaco on wine afterwards. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-05-01] Reference
Also, I would bet good money on the fact that there are more baseball fans out there than there are fans of satirical popular medievalism. From Wordnik.com. [Interwebbal Drama, New blogging goals] Reference
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