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Middle Ages Noun European history 1. (broadly) the period from the fall of the W Roman Empire in 476 ad to the Italian Renaissance 2. (narrowly) the period from about 1000 ad to the 15th century
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These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic caligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply. From the serfs of the Middle Ages sprang the chartered burghers of the earliest towns. The truth is, that living or dead, if but decently treated, whales as a species are by no means creatures of ill odor; nor can whalemen be recognised, as the people of the middle ages affected to detect a Jew in the company, by the nose. |
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